Farm diversification strategies in northwestern Spain: Factors affecting transitional pathways

Arias, Ana Isabel García; González, Ibán Vázquez; Sineiro-García, Francisco; Fra, María do Mar Pérez

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.08.011

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“…They indicate that producers should increase dimension at a great extent, otherwise a significant number of smallholders will be expelled from the system and will have to become laborers in their community or migrate to urban areas to find employment [32]. The increase of scale and intensification is an important aspect, although it is not enough for reaching a sustainable development in the tropics [2,7,10,11,17]. Our results showed that size was not associated to technological level.…”

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“…The typology was similar to other farms found in different states in Mexico with high levels of marginalization, low dependence on external inputs, and very low technological level [24][25][26][27][28][29] (Table S1), but with strong contrasts in regard to production scale, and gross incomes. In contrast, typologies from developed countries showed a medium-high technological level, high dependence on external incomes, and low marginalization level [11,12,17].…”

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“…Therefore, this research contributes to country level and can be generalized to other similar contexts. Multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis were used [11,12,21]. Five identified groups were characterized according to adopted technologies; 45 technologies grouped in the areas of management, feeding, genetics, reproduction, and animal health.…”

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“…A review of the main studies focused on the typologies of DP farms in ALC countries can be seen in supplementary materials (Table S1). However, they involve some methodological shortcomings such as: (a) In general, very unequal farms are compared (intensive with subsistence farms), resulting in predictable groups and classified as a supposed dual purpose [8]; (b) the farms are unequal regarding size and technologies, so, large, medium or small farms could prevail [6]; (c) in the principal components analysis (PCA), the number of variables is usually limited to the first two or three components [2,5]; (d) PCA or factorial analysis (FA) and cluster analysis are generally used, although there are other efficient methodological approaches with qualitative variables as multiple correspondence analysis (CMA) [11,12]; (e) the typologies are frequently elaborated at a local level, but typologies of country level or ecological zones are nonexistent [2,6,11,13].…”

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Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

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Dual-purpose cattle smallholder farms (DP) exhibit a critical economic situation. The objective of this research was building a typology for DP in tropical conditions and characterizing them technologically. This will help developing more effective public policies in DP farms located in tropical conditions. A sample of 1.475 farms located in the tropical area of Mexico was selected. The typology was built using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Subsequently, five groups were identified by a hierarchical cluster analysis with Ward's method. Groups 1 and 2, covered a 46.5% of the farms; these ones presented a small-scale productive model with low levels of technological adoption, improvements were mainly associated to the area of reproduction and genetics. Very small farms (Group 3) showed orientation to subsistence. They need to improve all the technological areas. Groups 4 and 5 (29.4% of the sample) were the biggest and more specialized farms. Group four farms were located in dry tropics and showed the highest levels of technological adoption in the areas of reproduction, management, and feeding. These farms require improvement in the areas of reproduction, animal health, and feeding. Group 5 farms were located in the wet tropics and showed specialization in reproduction, genetics, and animal health areas. In this last group, it is necessary to improve management and feeding areas.

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“…Esta condición es más clara en las unidades de producción con menor concentración de capital físico y financiero, más específico en los llamados empleados rurales con alta pluriactividad, donde más de 50 % de su ingreso proviene de las actividades extra-finca (Figura 4A) y que se relaciona negativamente con el VPAG (Figura 4B). Los resultados son consistentes con otras regiones del mundo; por ejemplo, 41 % de los productores de las unidades de producción en la provincia de Ourense en España se dedican solo parcialmente a la producción de vino (García-Arias et al, 2015). Esta realidad implica reconocer la pluriactividad como un componente y medio de vida basado principalmente en labores económicas no propias del sector agropecuario, que si bien no caracterizan formas de producción permite identificar las estrategias de supervivencia de los pobladores de la región, convirtiéndose en grupo más representativo de la región caracterizado por ser mano de obra poco calificada, que se auto-emplea principalmente como jornalero y en la construcción.…”

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El crecimiento poblacional y sus demandas hacen que el sector agropecuario sea cada vez más dinámico y complejo, situación que retoma la importancia de la tipología como un instrumento para el desarrollo de políticas públicas, especialmente para zonas áridas y semiáridas. Los objetivos de este trabajo fueron: (i) crear una tipología multidimensional que integre la caracterización y clasificación de los tipos de agricultura (CTA) con la caracterización y clasificación de los tipos de productores (CTP); e (ii) identificar las dinámicas agropecuarias de la región Altiplano Oeste Potosino utilizando una tipología multidimensional. La investigación tuvo como base 1044 encuestas, los datos fueron analizados utilizando como técnica de agrupación el análisis clúster. Los cultivos de frijol, maíz, chile, cebolla y ganado bovino y ovino son la base del ingreso agropecuario y son las principales cadenas productivas de la región. Se identificaron seis tipos de CTA, todos sistemas mixtos que buscan brindar mayor certidumbre en el ingreso, y cinco tipos de CTP; los menos capitalizados fueron los más representativos de la región (52.9 %). Al combinar CTA con CTP para crear una tipología multidimensional se observó que la principal estrategia de supervivencia se basa en la pluriactividad y el acceso a programas sociales y subsidios, donde las labores no agropecuarias representan más de 50 % del ingreso familiar. Se concluye sobre la necesidad de un cambio de paradigma al considerárseles como “empleados rurales” y no como productores ocampesinos, generando la necesidad de una política rural queconsidere esta realidad.

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Entrepreneurship in agriculture is a phenomenon that is growing in importance with the changing framework conditions for agricultural production and has led to heterogeneity in farm business development paths. To understand this phenomenon better, a classification scheme for strategic entrepreneurial choices in agriculture is developed for family farmers. The choices that are scrutinized are reduction, continuation, expansion, diversification, and the dual strategy of expansion and diversification. Each farmer is uniquely assigned to one of these choice classes according to their implemented entrepreneurial activities. Determinants influencing these choices are investigated with a multinomial logit model. The data are derived from a quantitative survey among German farmers (N = 745). Strong effects are observable within the area of personal factors; creativity and risk affinity benefit entrepreneurial strategies connected with diversification. Farmers with a third‐level education qualification are less likely to follow expansion strategies, and those with off‐farm employment and risk‐averse farmers mainly choose a reduction strategy. Family involvement, especially the farmer's spouse, proves to have stabilizing and even enhancing effects on certain strategies. Implications for policymakers and actors within the agricultural sector can thus be derived.

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Farm diversification strategies in northwestern Spain: Factors affecting transitional pathways

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References 37 publications

Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

Caracterización y clasificación de los productores del altiplano oeste potosino, México: una propuesta de tipología multidimensional

Analyzing strategic entrepreneurial choices in agriculture—Empirical evidence from Germany

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