SYSTEM VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS: GENERAL METHODOLOGY, DATA COLLECTION,

FIELD WORK AND WORKPLAN

CRP Dryland Systems Béni Khédache site

CRP Dryland Systems North Africa and West Asia

Annual Coordination and Planning Meeting

Béni Khédache-Sidi Bouzid site

Hotel Alhambra, Yasmine Hammamet, 17-18 November, 2014

Fetoui M., Abdeladhim M., Sghaier M., Ouessar M., Licheheb N.

THE SYSTEM VULNERABILITY analysis are based on :

Farming system description and typology,

Livelihood assessment (capitals),

Analysis of coping strategies and adaptation to climate

changes and drought,

Analysis of the natural resources taking in account the

different types of uses and practices

Local knowledge and innovation (agricultural practices and

livestock management

Gender analysis

Food security

Credit access, subsidies, local development

Natural resources vulnerability and desertification risks

(Ressources-uses balance)

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

Data is collected from:

-Basic survey (BS): Information taken directly from the study field (127 households)

In order to determine the general characteristics of the households and their

production systems (demographic criteria, financial, physical and social capitals,

agricultural production, system vulnerability, main sources of information, agricultural

policies, etc.).

The basic survey integrates also parts which deal with the gender analysis

(man, woman, young people), the local knowledge and innovation (regarding

agricultural practices and livestock management), the transfer of knowledge, the

food security and the sustainability of the system in general.

DATA COLLECTION

-Thematic survey (TS): Additional information from targeted farmers to identify the annual and seasonal activities and practices, but also the coping strategies and adaptation to biophysical, agro-socio-economic and environmental contexts.

Thematic Survey (TS1): "Crop System": Detailed investigation on

agricultural and livestock activities : sub-group of farmers in the study area

(40 to 50 surveys).

The questionnaire is based on the proposal of the basic survey of ICARDA.

This survey will be supplied by data already collected in the framework of

the "WAHARA" project (100 surveys carried out in the study area in 2012).

Thematic Survey (TS2): "Coping strategies": Concerns the strategies of

adaptation to climate change : (focus group).

It will be fed by the data collected in the framework of the "ACCCA" project

(130 surveys) in the same area in 2010.

-Valorization of the previous research programs and projects carried out in the same study area for at least a decade. These research

programs have a rich database, such as the history of rural people and their

territorial dynamics (JEFFARA program), production systems and uses of

resources (ROSELT/OSS, WAHARA), management of resources

(AFROMAISON), adaptation to climate change (ACCCA).

-Meetings and workshops grouping the main local and regional actors were carried out by the team of IRA during August 2014, within the

CTV of Beni Khedache (Cellule Territoriale de Vulgarisation) with the relevant

actors in the management of the rangelands of Dhahar ,

The actors have actively participated in the construction of a spatialized

database (status, users and types of use of rangelands, etc.). The tool used to

achieve this work is the Participatory GIS.

- Cartographic treatments

- Local, regional and national statistics

QUESTIONNAIRES

-The basic questionnaire is adapted from the questionnaire of ICARDA, integrating the

parts that deal with the gender aspects, local knowledge and innovation. This

questionnaire consists of 9 parts:

- a first general information of the localization of the household

- a second part to identify the household

- a third part concerns the demographic characterization of the household

- a fourth part present the financial, physical and social capital of the household (access to

land, livestock, productions and needs of the family, main sources of income, etc.)

- a fifth part concerns the agricultural production and the vulnerability of the system

(general production and marketing, animal feed, food security and sustainability of the

pastoral system, system vulnerability and coping strategies used by local communities)

- a sixth part concerns the local knowledge and innovation regarding agricultural practices

and management of livestock, the transfer of knowledge, the food security and the

sustainability of the system in general

- a seventh part concerns the gender aspects (man, woman, young people) in order to

identify the main roles in the management of the household

- an eighth part on the agricultural policies and on the agricultural and rural development

- a ninth part concerns the main sources of information for the household (on agricultural

practices, animal husbandry, prices, etc.) and access to credits

The distribution of groups of households is based on several considerations:

-Spatial consideration: The stratification by area and by quota has been respected in the

distribution of households to investigate. Thus, the sample is distributed on the three

geophysical areas in the study area (upstream, plains and downstream).

- Consideration of the gender: the stratification takes into account also the gender aspect.

This consideration had as objective to migrate to a second level of analysis of the production

systems vulnerability covering the gender (man, woman, young people).

-Consideration of agropastoral dynamics: some households, that have been already

investigated in the framework of projects such as Jeffara (2000-2003) and Afromaison (2010-

2013), are revisited in order to analyze the dynamics and the global changes in production

systems.

-Consideration of the farming systems and typology

- Consideration of the density of population in the geophysical areas

The sample is statistically tolerated since 127 households were selected from 4400 in the

study area (INS, 2005), ie a fraction of survey which vary from 2 to 5 %.

SAMPLES OF THE BASIC SURVEYS

Fig. 1: Spatial distribution of households surveys (BS)

SURVEYS

1. Information and mobilization of local and regional actors

Investigations have been preceded by a step of information and mobilization of local and

regional actors to ensure their participation in the whole work of data collection. The

regional authorities have been informed on the objectives of the work and invited to support

the survey work.

2. Conduct of the investigation

The baseline surveys were carried out in two times of a total duration of approximately one

month. In June 2014 and in July 2014.

DATA ENTRY

After the field investigations, the collected data were entered on the “SPSS” statistic

software. A series of measures had been taken before data entry. These measures have

mainly concerned the preparation of variables bar (610 variables for the basic survey).

ACTIVITIES 2014

Conceptualisation, elaboration of questionnaire BS

Information of local and regional actors and choice of samples BS

Choice and training of investigators + survey tests

Surveys : basic survey (BS)

Meetings and workshops with local actors in Beni Khedache + transect

Preparation of the first report on general methodology

Preparation of the variables bar (BS) : 609 variables

BS Data entry (SPSS)

Conceptualisation, elaboration of questionnaires TS1, TS2 : January

2015

Surveys : thematic survey (TS1 and TS2) (focus group, etc.) :

February-March 2015

Cartographic work (with Arcview and ArcGIS)

Preparation of the analysis reports on the basis of vulnerability analysis

: June 2015

Prepration of final report: November 2015

Dissemination

WORKPLAN 2015

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