Functional farm household typologies through archetypal responses to disturbances

Tittonell Pablo, Bruzzone Octavio A., Solano-Hernández A., Lopez Ridaura Santiago, Easdale Marcos Horacio. 2020. Functional farm household typologies through archetypal responses to disturbances. Agricultural Systems, 178:102714, 8 p.

Quartile : Q1, Sujet : AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Résumé : Methods to construct farm household typologies may differ in their approach but they share a common feature: they rely mostly on structural farm data. Methods to build functional typologies are far less abundant. Households or communities are complex social-ecological systems that often exhibit patterns in their response to disturbances (e.g., droughts, floods, price shocks, policy change). We propose building functional typologies – classifiable ´behaviours´ of rural actors – using archetype analysis to categorise such responses and identify salient behaviours. We illustrate this approach by examining the response of rural households to recurrent droughts in northern Patagonia, Argentina, as revealed by 23 in-depth interviews about perceptions and strategies concerning droughts. Using the algorithm from Mørup and Hansen (2012), and the corrected Akaike decision rule, we identified three archetypes (A–C) that represented three distinct aggregated responses of households to droughts. Archetype A presented variable degrees of resistance to droughts (production losses < 40%), avoidance and diversification, whereas archetype B exhibited tolerance (higher losses) and some degree of transformability (off-farm income). Archetype C farms exhibited high levels of vulnerability, if some degree of tolerance to high losses, but no real adaptive strategy to speak of. Such pattern could not have been identified through the more commonly used typology building methods such as using multivariate and clustering techniques. By allowing to combine qualitative and quantitative information, and to deal with a relatively small number of observations, archetype analysis appears as highly suitable to delineate functional farm household typologies.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : catastrophe naturelle, vulnérabilité, ménage, population agricole, gestion du risque, gestion des risques liés aux catastrophes, adaptation aux changements climatiques

Mots-clés libres : Social-ecological systems, Droughts, Natural disaster, Vulnerability, Adaptation

Classification Agris : E20 - Organisation, administration et gestion des entreprises ou exploitations agricoles
E80 - Économie familiale et artisanale

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Auteurs et affiliations

• Tittonell Pablo, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR AIDA (FRA) - auteur correspondant
• Bruzzone Octavio A., Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (ARG)
• Solano-Hernández A., Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (ARG)
• Lopez Ridaura Santiago, CIMMYT (MEX)
• Easdale Marcos Horacio, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (ARG)

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