Shared environment, diversity of pathways: dynamics of family farming in the Saïs Plain (Morocco)

Baccar, Mariem; Bouaziz, Ahmed; Dugué, Patrick; Gal, Pierre-Yves Le

doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1066-4

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“…Reduced family workers while growing the number of cows allow farmers to quit their off-farm activity and focus solely on dairy farming. Following [20], highlight the significance of labor force and capital on the farm development pathway. The strategy for adding off-farm activities is a wise decision to ensure family incomes and mitigate production factors' limitations.…”

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Specialization and diversification as adaptive strategies for smallholder dairy farming systems providing a formal milk chain in Indonesia

Sembada

Duteurtre²,

Moulin³

2022

E3S Web Conf.

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Smallholder dairy farms encounter challenges in minimal production factors that result in a lack of family income. They react differently to these limits by combining on-farm and off-farm activities (diversifying activity), concentrating exclusively on milk production (specializing activity), or leaving the dairy production to secure family livelihood. As far as adaptive strategies are concerned, they may affect milk production growth at the farm and national levels. We performed an observational case study in the West Java Province (Indonesia) to resolve those problems. We gathered information in two phases: a systematic survey (May to September 2015) to 355 farms and an in-depth interview (January to April 2017) with 20 farms. Our result distinguishes four categories of farms, along with a very small specialized dairy farm (T1), a combination of the dairy farm off-farm activity with very limited land (T2), a small specialized dairy farm (T3), and a mixed crop-dairy farm (T4). The technical-economic value varies depending on the farm type. The six trajectories prevail. The main change was the addition of off-farm activities for poor farmers. Farms in the development trajectory, two strategies coexist between the dairy production system's specialization and the mixed crops-dairy system. In conclusion, this study underscored each farm trajectory's different attributes and drivers. The study also underlined the importance of the initial capital of smallholders to illustrate their future farm trajectory.

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Specialization and diversification as adaptive strategies for smallholder dairy farming systems providing a formal milk chain in Indonesia

Sembada

Duteurtre²,

Moulin³

2022

E3S Web Conf.

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“…For example, the proportion of non-farm income was used in China to study household livelihoods status and its influence on regional land use change [18]. Baccar et al (2017) classified family farms in Morocco into four types based on combinations of three criteria, including access to land, production choices, and access to water, and identified their development pathways from an initial similar situation to a contemporary diverse situation [19]. In other studies, multiple criteria combined with the multivariate analysis techniques were used to differentiate rural households or farmers quantitatively.…”

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Defining Household Typologies Based on Cropland Use Behaviors for Rural Human-Environment Systems Simulation Research: A Case Study in Southwest China

Wang

Tian

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The dynamics of rural human-environment systems in developing countries have increasingly been attracting attention. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a valuable simulation tool for detecting complex feedback loops in rural human-environment systems with a ‘bottom-up’ approach. However, such models require the prerequisite analysis of household typology to simulate households’ decision-making process, where a gap exists between having accurate classification criteria and a simplified modeling framework. This study aimed to develop a household typology for two selected counties in southwest China based on multivariate analysis techniques and the classification tree method. Four categories of socioeconomic variables, including labor conditions, resource endowments, economic status, and social connections, were screened as possible factors impacting agriculture practice decisions. The results showed that household diversification in the study area was mainly determined by diversified livelihood strategies of off-farm work, livestock breeding, subsidy dependence, and traditional planting. Five distinct household types were identified: non-farm households, part-time households, livestock breed households, subsidized households, and traditional planting households. The household types were associated with specific cropland use behaviors, and their decision-making behaviors were verified with bounded rationality theory (where the maximization of profits is the primary goal). The quantitative classification criteria obtained in this study were clear and could be easily identified and used by ABMs. Our study provides a basis for further simulation of the complicated rural human-environment systems in southwest China.

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“…Finally, the authors warn of the free trade agreements that are being implemented with the EU and the USA that risk outclassing local production due to the lack of competitiveness. In addition, the authors of [31] have succeeded in highlighting the capacity of evolution and adaptation of the different Moroccan family farms thanks to the characteristics of their farms and the variety of natural, economic, and political changes they have faced during this period, thanks to an observation of a sample of farms over 45 years. In addition, they have also highlighted their capacity to evolve, if the responsible authorities set up statistical studies aimed at getting to know these farmers better and developing strategies and public policies adapted to their needs and situation, especially when competition for access to resources (groundwater, labor, and land) and markets, both between family farms and with local agribusinesses, is a source of uncertainty that weighs on their development dynamics.…”

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A Subsidy Strategy to Boost the Activity of Small Milk Producers in Morocco

Labriji

Foutayeni

Rachik

2021

Journal of Applied Mathematics

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The dairy sector in Morocco is a sector that struggles to develop by facing several difficulties. Therefore, a significant gap has emerged between the main national producers and small farmers, while in the economy, the development of small economic actors presents an important lever of growth. If we assume that the consumer’s milk demand function is linear, that it depends only on the consumer’s price, and that production costs follow a decreasing return, and finally, by considering only two actors representing the different types of producers, we will show in this paper that a competitive production subsidy of 0.5 MAD can triple the market share of small farmers while being in a situation of Nash-Cournot’s equilibrium. In addition, the addition of a subsidy to production costs will reduce the price of milk and, thus, increase the annual milk consumption of Moroccans from 59 liters, which is below the world average consumption, to 94 liters annually, thus benefiting the consumer in addition to small farmers.

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Shared environment, diversity of pathways: dynamics of family farming in the Saïs Plain (Morocco)

Cited by 14 publications

References 50 publications

Specialization and diversification as adaptive strategies for smallholder dairy farming systems providing a formal milk chain in Indonesia

Specialization and diversification as adaptive strategies for smallholder dairy farming systems providing a formal milk chain in Indonesia

Defining Household Typologies Based on Cropland Use Behaviors for Rural Human-Environment Systems Simulation Research: A Case Study in Southwest China

A Subsidy Strategy to Boost the Activity of Small Milk Producers in Morocco

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