Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management

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 industr...

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Autores: Blanch-Ramirez, Joana, Calvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342, Aceituno Mata, Laura|||0000-0001-7479-0760, Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s13593-022-00806-3
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Adaptation
Agricultural industrialization
Agrobiodiversity
Home gardens
Landraces
Traditional ecological knowledge
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spelling Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and managementBlanch-Ramirez, JoanaCalvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342Aceituno Mata, Laura|||0000-0001-7479-0760Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772AdaptationAgricultural industrializationAgrobiodiversityHome gardensLandracesTraditional ecological knowledgeMost 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. 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/265261https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s13593-022-00806-3reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengEuropean Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 771056Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 CEX2019-000940-Mopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2652612026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
title Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
spellingShingle Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
Blanch-Ramirez, Joana
Adaptation
Agricultural industrialization
Agrobiodiversity
Home gardens
Landraces
Traditional ecological knowledge
title_short Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
title_full Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
title_fullStr Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
title_full_unstemmed Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
title_sort Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Blanch-Ramirez, Joana
Calvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342
Aceituno Mata, Laura|||0000-0001-7479-0760
Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772
author Blanch-Ramirez, Joana
author_facet Blanch-Ramirez, Joana
Calvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342
Aceituno Mata, Laura|||0000-0001-7479-0760
Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772
author_role author
author2 Calvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342
Aceituno Mata, Laura|||0000-0001-7479-0760
Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Adaptation
Agricultural industrialization
Agrobiodiversity
Home gardens
Landraces
Traditional ecological knowledge
topic Adaptation
Agricultural industrialization
Agrobiodiversity
Home gardens
Landraces
Traditional ecological knowledge
description 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.
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