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Implications of alternative farm management patterns to promote resilience in extensive sheep farming. A Spanish case study
Abstract The vulnerability of extensive sheep systems in marginal areas, and their capacity to deliver important socio-economic functions and ecosystem services, can be studied through the lens of resilience theory. This research aims to explore how alternative farm management patterns contribute to build resilience in the extensive sheep farming system of Huesca, northeaster Spain. The methodology is based on the content analysis of in-depth interviews to farmers. We follow a specified framework based on the definition of the resilience capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability, and propose to assess nine case-specific attributes. Results show that sheep farms have undertaken four management patterns to develop over time, namely, extensification, intensification, re-orientation, and conservation. Patterns conservation and extensification appear to promote robustness and adaptability necessary to keep delivering characteristic functions, whereas transformability is much more evident in re-orientation and intensification patterns that re-address the farms' original functions. Matching with natural resources, traditions and perspectives, and farmers' networks are crucial resilience attributes for extensive farming. On the other hand, financial and labour resources, and on-farm diversity favour re-orientation and intensification. The paper casts light on the diverse ways through which farms build their own resilience, and highlights the importance of a balanced development of alternative trajectories for the whole farming system's resilience.
Highlights The concepts of robustness, adaptability and transformability are applied. Farms build different resilience capacities depending on the management pattern. Attributes determining different resilience capacities are identified. Transformative patterns are predominant, and favoured by the policy framework. The simultaneous development of alternative patterns promotes resilience.
Implications of alternative farm management patterns to promote resilience in extensive sheep farming. A Spanish case study
Abstract The vulnerability of extensive sheep systems in marginal areas, and their capacity to deliver important socio-economic functions and ecosystem services, can be studied through the lens of resilience theory. This research aims to explore how alternative farm management patterns contribute to build resilience in the extensive sheep farming system of Huesca, northeaster Spain. The methodology is based on the content analysis of in-depth interviews to farmers. We follow a specified framework based on the definition of the resilience capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability, and propose to assess nine case-specific attributes. Results show that sheep farms have undertaken four management patterns to develop over time, namely, extensification, intensification, re-orientation, and conservation. Patterns conservation and extensification appear to promote robustness and adaptability necessary to keep delivering characteristic functions, whereas transformability is much more evident in re-orientation and intensification patterns that re-address the farms' original functions. Matching with natural resources, traditions and perspectives, and farmers' networks are crucial resilience attributes for extensive farming. On the other hand, financial and labour resources, and on-farm diversity favour re-orientation and intensification. The paper casts light on the diverse ways through which farms build their own resilience, and highlights the importance of a balanced development of alternative trajectories for the whole farming system's resilience.
Highlights The concepts of robustness, adaptability and transformability are applied. Farms build different resilience capacities depending on the management pattern. Attributes determining different resilience capacities are identified. Transformative patterns are predominant, and favoured by the policy framework. The simultaneous development of alternative patterns promotes resilience.
Implications of alternative farm management patterns to promote resilience in extensive sheep farming. A Spanish case study
Bertolozzi-Caredio, Daniele (Autor:in) / Garrido, Alberto (Autor:in) / Soriano, Barbara (Autor:in) / Bardaji, Isabel (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 86 ; 633-644
06.08.2021
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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