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Peer-reviewedCC BYEnvironmental and Sustainability Indicators

Archetypes of resilience and adaptability in high Andean farming systems facing simultaneous disturbances

  • Diego Hernán Meneses-Buitrago1
  • Martha Marina Bolaños Benavides2
  • David Berre3
  • Housseman Steven Ramos-Zambrano4
  • Santiago Lopez-Ridaura5
  • Pablo Tittonell6
6 affiliations
  1. 1Obonuco Research Center, Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (AGROSAVIA), km 5 Pasto-Obonuco Road, Nariño, Colombia; AIDA, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France; CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Montpellier, France; Corresponding author. Obonuco Research Center, AGROSAVIA, km 5 Pasto-Obonuco Road, Nariño, Colombia.
  2. 2Tibaitatá Research Center, Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (AGROSAVIA), km 14 Bogotá-Mosquera Road, Cundinamarca, Colombia
  3. 3AIDA, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France; CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Montpellier, France
  4. 4Obonuco Research Center, Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (AGROSAVIA), km 5 Pasto-Obonuco Road, Nariño, Colombia
  5. 5International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
  6. 6AIDA, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, the Netherlands; CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Montpellier, France
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Abstract

High-Andean farming systems face simultaneous socio-environmental disturbances that challenge their resilience. Yet assessments based on average structural typologies often overlook extreme adaptation cases. This study identified farm types according to their responses to dominant stressors in La Cruz, Nariño, Colombia, and examined how these strategies align with resilience and adaptability criteria. Using data from 139 farms and participatory focus groups, we reconstructed the main territorial disturbances and developed 13 ordinal functional variables representing management and decision-making responses. Archetypal analysis identified four functional profiles explaining 84.2% of sample variance: climate-adaptive, techno-oriented, conservation-oriented, and small-diversified. Sixty-one farms aligned strongly with these reference profiles, whereas 78 showed hybrid response trajectories. Four representative archetypoids were then evaluated using ten indicators of agroecosystem resilience and adaptability. The profiles differed in their buffering and reconfiguration capacities. Climate-adaptive and conservation-oriented farms relied more strongly on water management, natural capital, and ecological regulation; techno-oriented farms emphasized productive innovation and micro-infrastructure; and small-diversified farms showed more reactive adaptation under constraints related to water access and technification. Functional diversity, response diversity, natural capital building, and autonomy or local interdependence were observed directly or partially across cases. These findings show that agroecological transitions enhance resilience unevenly and that functional archetypes complement average-based typologies by revealing distinct adaptation patterns and areas requiring targeted support.

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@article{menesesbuitrago2026archetypes,
  title = {{Archetypes of resilience and adaptability in high Andean farming systems facing simultaneous disturbances}},
  author = {Diego Hernán Meneses-Buitrago and Martha Marina Bolaños Benavides and David Berre and Housseman Steven Ramos-Zambrano and Santiago Lopez-Ridaura and Pablo Tittonell},
  journal = {Environmental and Sustainability Indicators},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.1016/j.indic.2026.101617},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2026.101617},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Archetypes of resilience and adaptability in high Andean farming systems facing simultaneous disturbances
AU  - Diego Hernán Meneses-Buitrago
AU  - Martha Marina Bolaños Benavides
AU  - David Berre
AU  - Housseman Steven Ramos-Zambrano
AU  - Santiago Lopez-Ridaura
AU  - Pablo Tittonell
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/09
JO  - Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
DO  - 10.1016/j.indic.2026.101617
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2026.101617
AB  - High-Andean farming systems face simultaneous socio-environmental disturbances that challenge their resilience. Yet assessments based on average structural typologies often overlook extreme adaptation cases. This study identified farm types according to their responses to dominant stressors in La Cruz, Nariño, Colombia, and examined how these strategies align with resilience and adaptability criteria. Using data from 139 farms and participatory focus groups, we reconstructed the main territorial disturbances and developed 13 ordinal functional variables representing management and decision-making responses. Archetypal analysis identified four functional profiles explaining 84.2% of sample variance: climate-adaptive, techno-oriented, conservation-oriented, and small-diversified. Sixty-one farms aligned strongly with these reference profiles, whereas 78 showed hybrid response trajectories. Four representative archetypoids were then evaluated using ten indicators of agroecosystem resilience and adaptability. The profiles differed in their buffering and reconfiguration capacities. Climate-adaptive and conservation-oriented farms relied more strongly on water management, natural capital, and ecological regulation; techno-oriented farms emphasized productive innovation and micro-infrastructure; and small-diversified farms showed more reactive adaptation under constraints related to water access and technification. Functional diversity, response diversity, natural capital building, and autonomy or local interdependence were observed directly or partially across cases. These findings show that agroecological transitions enhance resilience unevenly and that functional archetypes complement average-based typologies by revealing distinct adaptation patterns and areas requiring targeted support.
SN  - 2665-9727
ER  -