In semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa, farming populations face harsh climatic conditions but also very unequal and dynamic social processes that affect their resilience. This study addresses aspects of power and social justice related to the social-ecological system of the Niayes coastal region of Senegal and examines the potential of agroecology to improve the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. We performed a knowledge co-production process with a local farmer union to identify the main social-ecological nexuses that matter for smallholder farmers, their dynamics and the influence of powerful actors and institutions on them. We also look at the potential actions of the farmer union under the banner of agroecology to transform these dynamics. We found that social-ecological dynamics involve reinforcing feedback loops that undermine the resilience of smallholder farmers and that powerful actors such as agribusinesses have a strong influence on these processes. Union actions promoting agroecology have enhanced system thinking and related solutions, but observed social justice claims are very recent and have a limited scope. Our findings expand the notion of resilience grabbing, understood as the undermining of resilience through the loss of commons, to include systemic degradations due to direct and indirect actions of involved stakeholders. We also propose to expand the notion of resilience justice vertically, integrating procedural and recognition justice, and horizontally, integrating linked social-ecological issues. We conclude that agroecology can become a transformative bridge from resilience grabbing to resilience justice, but must be more sensitive to power relations, in particular around labour.

在半干旱的撒哈拉以南非洲地区，农业人口面临严酷的气候条件，但也面临着影响其复原力的非常不平等和动态的社会进程。这项研究探讨了与塞内加尔尼亚耶斯沿海地区社会生态系统相关的权力和社会正义，并探讨了农业生态学在提高小农户适应能力方面的潜力。我们与当地农民工会进行了知识联合生产过程，以确定与小农有关的主要社会生态关系，其动态以及强大的参与者和机构对其的影响。我们还将探讨在农业生态学的旗帜下农民工会为改变这些动力而可能采取的行动。我们发现，社会生态动态涉及加强反馈循环，从而破坏了小农的抵御能力，而农业综合企业等强大的参与者对这些过程具有强大的影响力。促进农业生态的工会行动增强了系统思维和相关解决方案，但是观察到的社会正义主张是最近才出现的，范围有限。我们的发现扩展了“抵御能力”概念的理解，即通过丧失公地而破坏了抵御能力，包括由于相关利益相关者的直接和间接行动而导致的系统性退化。我们还建议在纵向上扩展弹性正义的概念，将程序正义与承认正义相结合，而在横向上，将相关的社会生态问题融合在一起。