Assessing resilience of small ruminant farms in Spain: a longitudinal analysis based on FADN
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2025-12-16
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Prat Benhamou, AliciaBernués Jal, Alberto
Soriano Martínez, Barbara
Olaizola Tolosana, Ana
Martín Collado, Daniel
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Elsevier B.V.
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In the last decades, increasingly complex challenges are threatening the viability of European small ruminant farming systems. Thus, studying the resilience of small ruminant farms is key to strengthen their ability to face the current global scenario and guarantee their long-term viability. This study uses FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) data from 2014 to 2022 to explore how the three resilience capacities (i.e., robustness, adaptation and transformation) contribute to the resilience of Spanish small ruminant farms and examines which farm characteristics are associated with higher resilience outcomes. Each resilience capacity is quantified by considering changes over time in a set of selected indicators. We defined best and worst performers per year for each resilience capacity and used Elastic Net regression models to understand the probability of farms to belong to the best and worst performers based on a set of farm indicators. Overall, farms were more robust than adaptable or transformable, and that their adaptation and transformation was limited. The probability to belong the best performing group was variable in the case studies. Still, some indicators increased farms probability of belonging to the best performing group: Production efficiency for robustness, and Hectares per livestock and On-farm feed ratio for adaptation. By contrast, Family labour ratio was negatively related to the best performers in terms of adaptation. In these regards, strengthening the resilience of small ruminant farms would require strategies building adaptation and transformation considering the farm indicators that contribute to perform better in these capacities.
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Prat-Benhamou, A., Bernués, A., Soriano, B., Olaizola, A. M., & Martín-Collado, D. (2025). Assessing resilience of small ruminant farms in Spain: A longitudinal analysis based on FADN. Small Ruminant Research, 107684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres.2025.107684
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Adaptación específicaGanado
Explotación ganadera
Investigación sobre sistemas de producción agrícola
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Este trabajo ha contado con el apoyo del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades de España y de la Agencia Española de Innovación [Proyecto PID2020-120312RA-I00 financiado por MICIU/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033]. A. Prat-Benhamou ha contado con el apoyo de un contrato predoctoral del Gobierno de Aragón. Esta publicación contiene datos de la Red Española de Contabilidad Agraria (RECAN) facilitados el 2 de noviembre de 2023 por el equipo de la RECAN que trabaja en la Subdirección General de Análisis, Coordinación y Estadística de la Subsecretaría del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. A. Prat-Benhamou, A. Bernués, A. Olaizola y D. Martín-Collado pertenecen al Grupo de Investigación «Sistemas Socioecológicos» (A26_23R, Gobierno de Aragón)