Abstract As the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us, change is not only of the planned kind, but often triggered by sudden and unexpected events. The impact of such an event on agricultural systems is unpredictable and can be far reaching. Thus, rather than focusing our research efforts only on increasing the productivity and efficiency of agricultural systems, we may also need to pay attention to what enables them to change and adapt. One approach is to give more attention to relations and processes in a system. This applies to relations within agricultural systems, and between the system and its context; but also to relations between scientific disciplines and between researchers and practitioners. Assessing the fixities and dynamics these relations promote, may enable us to contribute making agricultural systems better able to navigate change processes, may be even enable them to take advantage of openings created by unexpected events.

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弹性或我们如何使农业系统能够驾驭意外变化的浪潮？

摘要 正如 COVID-19 大流行的发展提醒我们的那样，变化不仅是有计划的，而且经常由突发事件引发。这种事件对农业系统的影响是不可预测的，而且影响深远。因此，我们的研究工作不仅要集中在提高农业系统的生产力和效率上，还需要关注是什么使它们能够改变和适应。一种方法是更加关注系统中的关系和过程。这适用于农业系统内部以及系统与其环境之间的关系；但也涉及科学学科之间以及研究人员和从业者之间的关系。评估这些关系促进的固定性和动态性，