RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1007/s13593-016-0402-x
A1 Robert, Marion
A1 Thomas, Alban
A1 Bergez, Jacques Eric
T1 Processes of adpatation in farm decision-making models. A review
JF Agronomy for sustainable development
YR 2016
FD 2016
SP 36
OP 64
K1 farmers’ decision-making
K1 bio-economic model
K1 bio-decisional model
K1 uncertainty
K1 adaptation
AB Agricultural production systems are facing new challenges due to an ever changing global environment that is a source of risk and uncertainty. To adapt to these environmental changes, farmers must adjust their management strategies and remain competitive while also satisfying societal preferences for sustainable food systems. Representing and modeling farmers’ decision-making processes by including adaptation, when representing farmers’ practices ,is therefore an important challenge for the agricultural research community. Bio-economic and bio-decisional approaches have addressed adaptation at different planning horizons in the literature. We reviewed approximately 40 articles using bio-economic and bio-decisional models in which strategic and tactical decisions were considered dynamic adaptive and expectation-based processes. The main results of this literature survey are as follows: i) adaptability, flexibility and dynamic processes are common ways to characterize farmers’ decision-making, ii) adaptation can be a reactive or a proactive process depending on farmers’ flexibility and expectation capabilities, and iii) different modeling approaches are used to model decision stages in time and space, and some approaches can be combined to represent a sequential decision-making process. Focusing attention on short- and long-term adjustments in farming production plans, coupled with sequential and anticipatory approaches should lead to promising improvements for assisting decision makers.
PB EDP sciences
SN 1774-0746
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22499/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31169