Objective:

To evaluate the socioecological resilience in 15 family farms, located in five Cuban provinces, and to generate concrete proposals for promoting their agroecological transition.

Materials and Methods:

The methodology for the evaluation of socioecological resilience (MESR) proposed by Casimiro-Rodríguez (2016), was applied. Surveys and field trips were carried out in several family farms that are part of the scenarios benefitted by the project BIOMAS-Cuba. The evaluated farms are located in the provinces Las Tunas (2), Holguín (1), Sancti Spíritus (4), Matanzas (8) and Mayabeque (1).

Results:

From the analysis conducted in the 15 farms to define the principal components obtained from the corresponding correlation matrix, 85 % of the total variability was explained by the first four principal components. In the principal component 1 (PC1), the indicators external inputs used in production, energy efficiency, percentage of energy injected to the farm from outside, percentage of energy utilized from the farm, energy balance, energy cost of protein production and index of dependence on external inputs, stand out. In farm 13, the tridimensional indicators (technological-economic-energy) were more efficient in the estimation of resilience and those that characterized the PC1 stood out.

Conclusions:

The results highlight a moderate resilience as average, because although the farms self-supply their food, mostly with good productivity per hectare per year and high technological change capacity, they still have an index of dependence on external inputs which influences the unfavorable results shown by several efficiency indicators.

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