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Robustness of livestock farmers to climate variability: a case study in Uruguay

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posted on 2023-05-24, 10:27 authored by Picasso, VD, Astigarraga, L, Buffa, I, Sotelo, D, Americo, G, Terra, R, van Oort, PAJ, Holger MeinkeHolger Meinke
Increased awareness about climate change has motivated farmers, researchers, and policy makers worldwide to design “climate robust farming systems” that may be at the same time productive and sustainable in face of climatic risks, including climate change (Meinke et al., 2006). The terms stability, resilience, robustness, resistance, among others, are used widely in the literature to refer generally to the capacity to respond to risks, but often with unclear meanings and sometimes conflicting definitions (Grimm and Wissel, 1997). Operational definitions and quantitatively measures for these concepts are urgently needed in order to design climate robust systems and empirically compare systems with different robustness levels. Furthermore, it is relevant to understand how robustness is affected by technological and structural features of farming systems such as farm size, resources, inputs (Reidsma et al., 2007). In this paper we propose operational indicators to quantify robustness dimensions at the farm level and test the hypotheses that structural and technological features of farms impact climate robustness using past data from a group of livestock farms in Uruguay.

History

Publication title

5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture Incorporating 3rd Farming Systems Design Conference

Department/School

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

Publisher

World Congress on Conservation Agriculture

Place of publication

Australia

Event title

5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture Incorporating 3rd Farming Systems Design Conference

Event Venue

Brisbane, Australia

Date of Event (Start Date)

2011-09-26

Date of Event (End Date)

2011-09-29

Rights statement

Copyright 2013 ACIAR

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Livestock raising not elsewhere classified

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