Evaluating the sustainability of complex socio-environmental systems. the MESMIS framework

Ridaura, Santiago López; Masera, Omar; Astier, Marta

doi:10.1016/s1470-160x(02)00043-2

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“…Evolution in a changing context Input self-sufficiency has often been considered as interesting to promote farm sustainability, faced with an increase in energy and input costs (López-Ridaura et al, 2002;Bernués et al, 2011;Ripoll-Bosch et al, 2012). In addition, Raveau (2011) found that when product prices increased, as in 2007, autonomous farms had more latitude for increasing their production, through increasing the use of inputs.…”

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“…Several authors agree that increasing self-sufficiency provides one way to develop more sustainable agricultural systems in such an uncertain context (López-Ridaura et al, 2002;Vilain, 2008;Bernués et al, 2011). Broadly defined, self-sufficiency is 'the capacity of the system to regulate and control its interaction with the environment' .…”

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“…López-Ridaura et al, 2002;Ripoll-Bosch et al, 2012). It has also been considered as a key principle of agroecology for animal systems (Dumont et al, 2013), as well as a strategy to improve their resilience (Darnhofer, 2010).…”

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Role of input self-sufficiency in the economic and environmental sustainability of specialised dairy farms

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Increasing input self-sufficiency is often viewed as a target to improve sustainability of dairy farms. However, few studies have specifically analysed input self-sufficiency, by including several technical inputs and without only focussing on animal feeding, in order to explore its impact on farm sustainability. To address this gap, our work has three objectives as follows: (1) identifying the structural characteristics required by specialised dairy farms located in the grassland area to be self-sufficient; (2) analysing the relationships between input self-sufficiency, environmental and economic sustainability; and (3) studying how the farms react to a decrease in milk price according to their self-sufficiency degree. Based on farm accounting databases, we categorised 335 Walloon specialised conventional dairy farms into four classes according to their level of input self-sufficiency. To this end, we used as proxy the indicator of economic autonomy -that is, the ratio between costs of inputs related to animal production, crop production and energy use and the total gross product. Classes were then compared using multiple comparison tests and canonical discriminant analysis. A total of 30 organic farms -among which 63% had a high level of economic autonomy -were considered separately and compared with the most autonomous class. We showed that a high degree of economic autonomy is associated, in conventional farms, with a high proportion of permanent grassland in the agricultural area. The most autonomous farms used less input -especially animal feeding -for a same output level, and therefore combined good environmental and economic performances. Our results also underlined that, in a situation of decrease in milk price, the least autonomous farms had more latitude to decrease their input-related costs without decreasing milk production. Their incomes per work unit were, therefore, less impacted by falling prices, but remained lower than those of more autonomous farms. In such a situation, organic farms kept stable incomes, because of a slighter decrease in organic milk price. Our results pave the way to study the role of increasing input self-sufficiency in the transition of dairy farming systems towards sustainability. Further research is required to study a wide range of systems and agro-ecological contexts, as well as to consider the evolution of farm sustainability in the long term.

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“…Las premisas son que: (1) la sustentabilidad de los sistemas de manejo de los recursos naturales (SMRN) se define a partir de por lo menos siete atributos sistémicos que son: productividad, estabilidad, confiabilidad, resiliencia, equidad, adaptabilidad y auto-gestión; (2) se realiza en un contexto específico y que se restringe a una escala espacial y temporal determinada; (3) la evaluación se piensa como un proceso participativo de los diferentes actores involucrados y requiera, por lo tanto, de un equipo interdisciplinario; y (4) la sustentabilidad no se determina per se, sino, que sea en términos relativos: a través de una comparación de uno o más SMRN (evaluación transversal) o monitoreando un SMRN a lo largo del tiempo (evaluación longitudinal) (ASTIER et al, 2012;MASERA et al, 1999, LÓPEZ-RIDAURA et al, 2002.…”

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“…These can be aggregated in a unique "sustainability index" that evaluates the performance of the productive system. The following related works should be mentioned: Ali (1996), Pannell and Glenn (2000), Rigby et al (2001), Praneetvatakul et al (2001), López-Ridaura et al (2002), Herendeen and Wildermuth (2002), Lopes and Almeida (2003), Zhen and Routray (2003), Pacini et al (2003), Fernandes (2004), Rasul and Thapa (2004).…”

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Efficiency and sustainability assessment for a group of farmers in the Brazilian Amazon

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The aim of this paper is to use DEA models to evaluate sustainability in agriculture. Several variables are taken into account and the resulting efficiency is measured by comparison. The performance of family farms is analysed here (variables: farmed area, work force, and production). As agricultural sustainability depends on the maintenance of systems of production for long periods of time, the models were run for the years of 1986 and 2002. Tiered DEA models were used to group farmers in sustainability categories. Non-parametric regression models were used to identify the factors affecting the efficiency measurements. All the results indicate that the majority of the farmers increased their efficiency along the time. These improvements may support the existence of sustainability.

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Evaluating the sustainability of complex socio-environmental systems. the MESMIS framework

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Role of input self-sufficiency in the economic and environmental sustainability of specialised dairy farms

Role of input self-sufficiency in the economic and environmental sustainability of specialised dairy farms

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Efficiency and sustainability assessment for a group of farmers in the Brazilian Amazon

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