The increasingly uncertain and changing agricultural context raises questions about the resilience, i.e., ability to cope with disturbances, of farms to climate change and other disturbances. To date, the resilience concept has been discussed mainly in the scientific field leading to an abundant literature on social-ecological system resilience and on livelihood resilience. A farm resilience framework is developing and borrows from those two frameworks. However, consistent application of the farm resilience concept remains difficult and requires better consideration of farmers’ perspectives. Our objectives in this study were to highlight farmers’ perceptions of farm resilience to the variety of disturbances they have to cope with in their daily farm management and to highlight resilience factors. We conducted 128 semistructured interviews on French organic dairy cattle (85) and sheep (43) farms. We asked farmers six open-ended questions about resilience in organic dairy farming. Inductive content analysis of the data was conducted. According to farmers, a resilient farm relies on a high degree of autonomy in investments, animal feeding, and decision making, and is economically efficient. Other resilience indicators include consistency of the farming plan, with, e.g., herd size corresponding to the production potential of the land, and transferability of the farm to relatives, through, e.g., the financial capital required to take over the farm. Farmers also highlighted different ways to achieve resilience. Because of the higher cost of organic inputs, converting to organic farming indirectly promotes adaptations of farms toward autonomy and economic efficiency, and is thus regarded as a major resilience factor. Farmers also highlighted the central role of pastures and grazing to achieve autonomy and improve cost control. Diversification within the farm via crop rotations, herd composition, and farm products was also considered to improve farm resilience. In this study, we are the first to explore organic farmers’ perception of farm resilience. Better understanding farmers’ perceptions is necessary for developing training and advisory programs to support farm resilience to a variety of disturbances.

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适应力应用于农业：有机农民的观点

日益不确定和不断变化的农业环境引发了人们对抵御能力的质疑，即应对气候变化和其他干扰的农场的应对能力。迄今为止，主要在科学领域中讨论了弹性概念，导致了有关社会生态系统弹性和生计弹性的大量文献。一个农场弹性框架正在开发中，并从这两个框架中借鉴而来。但是，要始终如一地应用农场抗灾力概念仍然很困难，需要更好地考虑农民的观点。我们在这项研究中的目标是强调农民对农场抵御能力的认识，以应对他们在日常农场管理中必须应对的各种干扰，并强调抵御力的因素。我们对法国有机奶牛（85）和绵羊（43）农场进行了128次半结构化访谈。我们问了农民关于有机奶牛养殖业复原力的六个开放性问题。进行数据的归纳含量分析。根据农民的说法，一个有韧性的农场在投资，动物饲养和决策上有高度的自主权，并且在经济上是有效的。其他复原力指标包括耕种计划的一致性（例如，对应于土地生产潜力的畜群规模）以及农场（例如通过收购农场所需的资金）向亲属的可转移性。农民还强调了实现抵御能力的不同方法。由于有机投入的成本较高，转换为有机农业间接地促进了农场适应自治和经济效率，因此被视为主要的复原力因素。农民还强调了牧场和放牧对实现自治和改善成本控制的核心作用。还考虑通过轮作，畜群组成和农产品在农场内实现多样化，以提高农场的适应力。在这项研究中，我们是第一个探索有机农民对农场抵御能力的认识的组织。更好地了解农民的看法对于制定培训和咨询计划以支持农场抵抗各种干扰的能力是必要的。还考虑通过轮作，畜群组成和农产品在农场内实现多样化，以提高农场的适应力。在这项研究中，我们是第一个探索有机农民对农场抵御能力的认识的组织。更好地了解农民的看法对于制定培训和咨询计划以支持农场抵抗各种干扰的能力是必要的。还考虑通过轮作，畜群组成和农产品在农场内实现多样化，以提高农场的适应力。在这项研究中，我们是第一个探索有机农民对农场抵御能力的认识的组织。更好地了解农民的看法对于制定培训和咨询计划以支持农场抵抗各种干扰的能力是必要的。