Multiple equilibria, soil conservation investments, and the resilience of agricultural systems

Antle, John M.; Stoorvogel, J.J.; Valdivia, Roberto O.

doi:10.1017/s1355770x06003056

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“…Research on underlying causes of unsustainable land management in drylands has included: broad diagnostic assessments (Binswanger et al 1989); studies of property rights and collective action in both sedentary and pastoral systems (Agrawal 2001;Place and Hazell 1993); encroachment by external interests (Lane 1998); population pressure and poverty (Grepperud 1996;Pender et al 2001;Templeton and Scherr 1999;Tiffen et al 1994); drought as a driver and trigger of desertification (Dregne 2000); access to markets and infrastructure (Binswanger and McIntire 1987;Pender et al 2006); economic returns to conservation practices (Cramb et al 2000;Gautam and Anderson 1999;Holden 1998, 2001); extension approaches (Cramb et al 2000;Clay et al 1998); factor market imperfections Krishna 2002;Pender and Kerr 1998); social capital (Antle et al 2006); and irreversibility thresholds (Bauer and Stringer 2008). Despite the excellence of much of this research, its disciplinary focus has often resulted in promotion of interventions that have not been widely adopted (Sietz et al 2011).…”

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An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas

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More than 400 million people in the developing world depend on dryland agriculture for their livelihoods. Dryland agriculture involves a complex combination of productive components: staple crops, vegetables, livestock, trees and fish interacting principally with rangeland, cultivated areas and watercourses. Managing risk and enhancing productivity through diversification and sustainable intensification is critical to securing and improving rural livelihoods. The main biophysical constraints are natural resource limitations and degradation, particularly water scarcity and encroaching desertification. Social and economic limitations, such as poor access to markets and inputs, weak governance and lack of information about alternative production technologies also limit the options available to farmers. Past efforts to address these constraints by focusing on individual components have either not been successful or are now facing a declining rate of impact, indicating the need for new integrated approaches to research for development of dryland systems. This article outlines the characteristics of such an approach, integrating agro-ecosystem and livelihoods approaches and presents a range of empirical examples of its application in dryland contexts. The authors draw attention to new insights about the design of research required to accelerate impact by integrating across disciplines and scales.

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“…1), ecological function is dominated by farming practices, technologies, and investments, and changes in these drivers can lead to alternative system states (Antle et al 2006). The resilience of the coupled social-ecological system is the result of interactions among individual farmer practices, broad-scale policy and regulations, biophysical processes, and spatially explicit perturbations.…”

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Constructing stability landscapes to identify alternative states in coupled social-ecological agent-based models

Bitterman¹,

Bennett²

2016

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ABSTRACT. The resilience of a social-ecological system is measured by its ability to retain core functionality when subjected to perturbation. Resilience is contextually dependent on the state of system components, the complex interactions among these components, and the timing, location, and magnitude of perturbations. The stability landscape concept provides a useful framework for considering resilience within the specified context of a particular social-ecological system but has proven difficult to operationalize. This difficulty stems largely from the complex, multidimensional nature of the systems of interest and uncertainty in system response. Agent-based models are an effective methodology for understanding how cross-scale processes within and across social and ecological domains contribute to overall system resilience. We present the results of a stylized model of agricultural land use in a small watershed that is typical of the Midwestern United States. The spatially explicit model couples land use, biophysical models, and economic drivers with an agent-based model to explore the effects of perturbations and policy adaptations on system outcomes. By applying the coupled modeling approach within the resilience and stability landscape frameworks, we (1) estimate the sensitivity of the system to contextspecific perturbations, (2) determine potential outcomes of those perturbations, (3) identify possible alternative states within state space, (4) evaluate the resilience of system states, and (5) characterize changes in system-scale resilience brought on by changes in individual land use decisions.

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“…A decline in livestock herds-substituted with other means of saving and borrowing-was also documented in Ica. Antle et al (2003) analyse the impact of titling on investment in terraces in the province of Cajamarca (northern Peru). They find that the probability of investments in terraces increased by 6.6 per cent with registration.…”

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Globalization, Crop Choice, and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994–2004

Field¹,

Field²

2010

The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

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This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was to better understand how household responses to external economic shocks influenced rural welfare, income distribution and poverty. Since a large percentage of Peruvians living in poverty are located in rural areas, learning more about how these households respond to a changing external environment provides insights into the factors that influence their ability to improve their absolute and relative economic position.The results of our analysis indicate that changes in relative prices had a significant impact on the adoption of new agricultural products, and the magnitude of response was mitigated by households' degree of tenure security and access to regional and local markets. Analyses of household expenditures over the period indicate that those who …/.

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Multiple equilibria, soil conservation investments, and the resilience of agricultural systems

Cited by 57 publications

References 17 publications

An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas

An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas

Constructing stability landscapes to identify alternative states in coupled social-ecological agent-based models

Globalization, Crop Choice, and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994–2004

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