A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms

There is a growing interest in studying farm resilience. Typically, resilience assessments focus on crisis outcomes, with less attention paid to assess the system characteristics that contribute to building resilience, i.e. resilience attributes. This is partly due to a lack of practical approaches...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Prat-Benhamou, A., Meuwissen, M.P.M., Slijper, T., Bernués, A., Gaspar-García, P., Lizarralde, J., Mancilla-Leytón, J.M., Mandaluniz, N., Mena, Y., Soriano, B., Martín-Collado, D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Zaragoza
Repositorio:Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
OAI Identifier:oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162147
Acceso en línea:http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162147
Access Level:acceso abierto
id ES_3f45b194c18ea8b4e3a45dc663feaaf5
oai_identifier_str oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162147
network_acronym_str ES
network_name_str España
repository_id_str
spelling A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farmsPrat-Benhamou, A.Meuwissen, M.P.M.Slijper, T.Bernués, A.Gaspar-García, P.Lizarralde, J.Mancilla-Leytón, J.M.Mandaluniz, N.Mena, Y.Soriano, B.Martín-Collado, D.There is a growing interest in studying farm resilience. Typically, resilience assessments focus on crisis outcomes, with less attention paid to assess the system characteristics that contribute to building resilience, i.e. resilience attributes. This is partly due to a lack of practical approaches to assess these attributes. The objective of this paper is to develop a practical approach to assess and compare the status of livestock farms’ resilience attributes in different farming systems. We identified 21 resilience attributes that generally contribute to farm resilience based on a literature review. We operationalised resilience attributes into 85 indicators quantifiable through primary farm data, such percentage of feed produced on the farm. We assessed three small ruminant case studies in Spain: (i) meat sheep farms in Aragón; (ii) dairy sheep farms in the Basque Country and Navarre; (iii) dairy goat farms in Andalusia. We conducted farmer surveys (n = 144) to measure the indicators, and organised three workshops with farmers and other local stakeholders (n = 20) to assess the importance of the resilience attributes in the three case studies. We aggregated indicators into resilience attribute scores using a minimum–maximum normalisation procedure. Using stakeholders’ assessments, we calculated attribute weights by a budget allocation process. Attribute scores and weights were then used to calculate an overall resilience score (ranging from 0 to 100). The comparison of attribute scores revealed strengths and weaknesses for resilience in each case study. In the meat sheep system, honours legacy was a major strength, while work and quality of life was a weakness. In the dairy sheep system, sector organisation was a major strength, while the redundance of productive alternatives was a weakness. For dairy goat farms, the infrastructure of the areas where farmers live was a major strength, but feed autonomy and the attributes related to the access and use of natural resources were weaknesses. The perceived importance of attributes (weights) differed across cases. Particularly, human capital emerged as one of the most relevant ones across case studies. Farms’ overall resilience scores were significantly lower in the dairy goat system. Our approach allows to find what attributes build resilience in farms and to highlight areas of improvement to strengthen their resilience. Our findings are of importance to farmers, technicians and policymakers who are interested in assessing resilience as we provide a practical approach to quantify and compare resilience of farms.2025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162147reponame:Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragozainstname:Universidad de ZaragozaInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/A26-23Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PID2020-120312RA-I00/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PRE2020-095654/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:zaguan.unizar.es:1621472026-05-29T13:59:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
title A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
spellingShingle A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
Prat-Benhamou, A.
title_short A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
title_full A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
title_fullStr A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
title_full_unstemmed A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
title_sort A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Prat-Benhamou, A.
Meuwissen, M.P.M.
Slijper, T.
Bernués, A.
Gaspar-García, P.
Lizarralde, J.
Mancilla-Leytón, J.M.
Mandaluniz, N.
Mena, Y.
Soriano, B.
Martín-Collado, D.
author Prat-Benhamou, A.
author_facet Prat-Benhamou, A.
Meuwissen, M.P.M.
Slijper, T.
Bernués, A.
Gaspar-García, P.
Lizarralde, J.
Mancilla-Leytón, J.M.
Mandaluniz, N.
Mena, Y.
Soriano, B.
Martín-Collado, D.
author_role author
author2 Meuwissen, M.P.M.
Slijper, T.
Bernués, A.
Gaspar-García, P.
Lizarralde, J.
Mancilla-Leytón, J.M.
Mandaluniz, N.
Mena, Y.
Soriano, B.
Martín-Collado, D.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
description There is a growing interest in studying farm resilience. Typically, resilience assessments focus on crisis outcomes, with less attention paid to assess the system characteristics that contribute to building resilience, i.e. resilience attributes. This is partly due to a lack of practical approaches to assess these attributes. The objective of this paper is to develop a practical approach to assess and compare the status of livestock farms’ resilience attributes in different farming systems. We identified 21 resilience attributes that generally contribute to farm resilience based on a literature review. We operationalised resilience attributes into 85 indicators quantifiable through primary farm data, such percentage of feed produced on the farm. We assessed three small ruminant case studies in Spain: (i) meat sheep farms in Aragón; (ii) dairy sheep farms in the Basque Country and Navarre; (iii) dairy goat farms in Andalusia. We conducted farmer surveys (n = 144) to measure the indicators, and organised three workshops with farmers and other local stakeholders (n = 20) to assess the importance of the resilience attributes in the three case studies. We aggregated indicators into resilience attribute scores using a minimum–maximum normalisation procedure. Using stakeholders’ assessments, we calculated attribute weights by a budget allocation process. Attribute scores and weights were then used to calculate an overall resilience score (ranging from 0 to 100). The comparison of attribute scores revealed strengths and weaknesses for resilience in each case study. In the meat sheep system, honours legacy was a major strength, while work and quality of life was a weakness. In the dairy sheep system, sector organisation was a major strength, while the redundance of productive alternatives was a weakness. For dairy goat farms, the infrastructure of the areas where farmers live was a major strength, but feed autonomy and the attributes related to the access and use of natural resources were weaknesses. The perceived importance of attributes (weights) differed across cases. Particularly, human capital emerged as one of the most relevant ones across case studies. Farms’ overall resilience scores were significantly lower in the dairy goat system. Our approach allows to find what attributes build resilience in farms and to highlight areas of improvement to strengthen their resilience. Our findings are of importance to farmers, technicians and policymakers who are interested in assessing resilience as we provide a practical approach to quantify and compare resilience of farms.
publishDate 2025
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2025
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
format article
status_str publishedVersion
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162147
url http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162147
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv Inglés
language_invalid_str_mv Inglés
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/A26-23R
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PID2020-120312RA-I00/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PRE2020-095654/
dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
eu_rights_str_mv openAccess
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv
publisher.none.fl_str_mv
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv reponame:Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
instname:Universidad de Zaragoza
instname_str Universidad de Zaragoza
reponame_str Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
collection Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
_version_ 1869406622169694208
score 15,811543

Similares en LA Referencia