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Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
Agronomy for Sustainable Development ( IF 7.3 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 , DOI: 10.1007/s13593-022-00806-3
Joana Blanch-Ramirez 1 , Laura Calvet-Mir 1, 2 , Laura Aceituno-Mata 3 , Petra Benyei 1
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Most studies on climate change’s impacts on agriculture focus on modeling techniques based on large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmer’s perception of climate change’s impacts can affect crop diversity and crop management practices, especially in industrialized contexts. To fill this gap, we conducted 24 semi-structured interviews in a study site located in the Catalan Pyrenees. Our results show for the first time in an industrialized context that farmers perceive multiple interrelated climate change impacts on local agroecosystems. For instance, snowfall and freeze events have decreased, which respondents associated with the increase of pests and diseases affecting both wild flora and cultivated plants. Similarly, changes in precipitation patterns lead to a perceived decrease in useful rain for agriculture. Farmers are also reporting changes in their management practices, such as increased irrigation or use of pesticides, which respond to these climatic factors but also to changes in the crops that are cultivated. Crop diversity is in decline in the area both at the species and landrace levels, especially in rainfed fields. This is mainly driven by socioeconomic factors such as agricultural abandonment or access to commercial seeds, although climate change factors such as increased pests or decreased rainfall can have an impact. Despite the crop diversity losses found, many landraces have been maintained, mainly due to their cultural value, and also new crop species have been introduced, which are now viable due to the increase in temperature. Although we focused on a specific case study, we found several trends that are also present in other contexts. Therefore, the results of this research are relevant at a global scale since they show that climate change is affecting mountain agroecosystems in industrialized contexts and may affect more drastically both agrobiodiversity and crop management practices in agroecosystems worldwide.



中文翻译:

加泰罗尼亚比利牛斯​​山脉的气候变化与社会经济因素相交叉,影响作物多样性和管理

大多数关于气候变化对农业影响的研究都集中在基于大规模气象数据的建模技术上,而很少有人研究农民对气候变化影响的看法如何影响作物多样性和作物管理实践,尤其是在工业化背景下。为了填补这一空白,我们在位于加泰罗尼亚比利牛斯​​山脉的一个研究地点进行了 24 次半结构化访谈。我们的研究结果首次在工业化背景下表明,农民感知到多种相互关联的气候变化对当地农业生态系统的影响。例如,降雪和冰冻事件有所减少,这与影响野生植物和栽培植物的病虫害增加有关。同样,降水模式的变化导致对农业有用的降雨减少。农民们还报告了他们管理实践的变化,例如增加灌溉或使用杀虫剂,这对这些气候因素以及所种植的作物的变化都有反应。该地区的作物多样性在物种和地方品种水平上都在下降,特别是在雨养田。这主要是由农业遗弃或获得商业种子等社会经济因素驱动的,尽管害虫增加或降雨减少等气候变化因素可能会产生影响。尽管发现了作物多样性的损失,但许多地方品种得以保留,主要是由于它们的文化价值,并且还引入了新的作物品种,由于温度升高,这些品种现在可以生存。虽然我们专注于一个特定的案例研究,我们发现了一些在其他情况下也存在的趋势。因此,这项研究的结果在全球范围内具有相关性,因为它们表明气候变化正在影响工业化背景下的山区农业生态系统,并可能更剧烈地影响全球农业生态系统中的农业生物多样性和作物管理实践。

更新日期:2022-09-02
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