“…Farming system types are a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases, enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and interventions would be appropriate. Different approaches can be used to construct farm typologies, such as qualitative, participatory, expert-based and quantitative typologies (Alvarez et al, 2018;Kuivanen et al, 2016;Tittonell et al, 2010). In this study, we chose a predominantly structural, quantitative approach to construct a farm typology, validated by local experts, and opted to model 'real' instead of 'constructed' farms.…”