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The determining factors of farm sustainability in a context of growing agricultural intensification
- Source :
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Philadelphia PA: Taylor & Francis, 2018, 43 (4), pp.386-408. ⟨10.1080/21683565.2018.1489934⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2018.
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Abstract
- International audience; Farms are evolving in a political and social environment concerned with the three dimensions – environmental, social, and economic – of sustainable farming. This study analyses the key factors determining the sustainability of 36 farms reflecting the diverse farming systems found on the Saïs Plain in Morocco, where an intensification dynamic encouraged by the government is combined with increasingly constrained access to irrigation water and fluctuating agricultural commodity prices. The sustainability of each farm was assessed using the Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles/Farm Sustainability Indicators method. A multivariate statistical analysis was conducted to analyze and group the case farms and assess the scores of each component of sustainability. Results show that agroecological sustainability of a farm depends on its autonomy in using resources and the extent to which its production system is diversified. Farm structure and the choice of production system affect economic sustainability. The farmers’ preferences and social values influence socio-territorial sustainability. No farm is able to obtain a high total sustainability value (max 55/100), with the economic dimension varying in opposite directions to the agroecological and socio-territorial dimensions. The implications of the choice of the assessment method on the sustainability results are discussed, as are the consequences of agricultural policies on the farms’ sustainability.
- Subjects :
- [SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences
diversification
Natural resource economics
F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
agroécologie
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q1 - Agriculture/Q.Q1.Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Context (language use)
010501 environmental sciences
Development
01 natural sciences
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics
specialization
11. Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Agriculture durable
Sustainability evaluation
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
E10 - Économie et politique agricoles
2. Zero hunger
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D2 - Production and Organizations
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Social environment
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
Agricultural intensification
Morocco
Key factors
13. Climate action
IDEA
Sustainability
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
Business
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
Politique agricole
Agronomy and Crop Science
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21683573 and 21683565
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Philadelphia PA: Taylor & Francis, 2018, 43 (4), pp.386-408. ⟨10.1080/21683565.2018.1489934⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4ab8145293e60b3b923cbb942180a71d