Farming System Study

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Farming System Study

• Overview of Individual Farming System Reports

With the support of
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Justifications and Purposes

• Build a reference for policy makers to better
  understand
• The geographic differentiation of farming systems
  and their responses
• Reactions by household type to policy changes

Identify Farming Systems
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Farming System

• Result of the interaction of socio-economic and
  biophysical factors
• Natural resources (Climate, water, soil)
• Socio-economic (Population density, information
  human capital, technology level, market access
  integration)
• Policy interventions (Infrastructure)

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Concept

• Farming systems are characterized by a specific
  combination of natural and socio-economic factors
• Within each farming system, different household
  types reflect adjustment possibilities to
  changing conditions in the FS
• Each HH type presents different characteristics
• Farm resources
• Income sources and livelihood opportunities
• Household vulnerability to adverse ecological and
  market conditions
• HHs respond differently to policy changes

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Concept
The aggregation of HH responses at territorial
level (Farming Systems) allows to link economic
policies to household performances and strategies
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Methodology

• Identification (Secondary data) of
• Major FS boundaries (ACZ, irrigation,
  socio-economic conditions)
• Sub-systems and niches
• Field surveys to
• Identify representative Mantikas and villages per
  FS
• Define household types
• Assess household characteristics changes
• Quantify farm economic aspects
• Household classification criteria (local)
• Holding size
• Income sources
• Technology level
• Other resource endowments (assets, labour, etc.)

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Field survey
29 Missions
327 Days
46 Villages
229 Farmer Questionnaires
459 Gross Margins
106 Group Discussions
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Overview of FS
FS of Northern and North-eastern
Plains Irrigated mixed
Hilly and Mountainous FS Rainfed and
supplementary irrigated
Coastal Intensive Irrigated FS
FS of Al Ghab and the Central Rainfed and
Irrigated Plains
Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral FS Arid and Semi-arid
FS of Southern Semi-arid Mountainsand Plains
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Overview of FS
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Example HH Analysis for FS3

• FS of Northern and North-eastern Plains
• Farming system characteristics
• Large holding size
• Relevance of strategic crops
• Market access characterized by public collection
  centres
• Relatively good water availability (natural and
  created)
• Relevance at national level
• High share of nation production (crops, livestock
  feeding)
• Vulnerability to policy changes
• Main water user

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HH Analysis in FS3Irrigated Sub-system
Share of HH type
Summer
Income sources
Cropping pattern
Winter
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HH analysis

• Changes over the last decade
• Livestock population
• Land size
• Land productivity
• Water availability (mainly wells)
• New investments in tree crops (rainfed olive)

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Strategies HH perspective

• Intensification
• Diversification
• Expansion
• Off-farm
• Exit

• Irrigated s-sys
• Poor HH
• Medium HH
• Better-off HH
• Mixed s-sys
• Poor HH
• Medium HH
• Better-off HH

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HH vulnerability
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