Fig. 5: Coping strategies for early vigorous growth (from right to left).
From: Towards an antifragility framework in past human–environment dynamics
(a) Doing nothing could result in successful crop yield, if spring rains are weak, or doing nothing could lead to crop failure if rains are plentiful; (b) the opposite is the case if caprines allowed to graze, where plentiful rains will allow the crops to recover but weak rains will not be sufficient for a successful crop; (c) harvesting early, before the rainy season, circumvents the input of rains later in the season, but results in a small yield (note that trying to employ all three practices in a single field will result in lower yields as well and the first two strategies depend on opposite spring rain inputs to be successful).
