A typology of climate information users for adaptation to agricultural droughts in Uruguay

Cruz, Gabriela; Gravina, Virginia; Baethgen, Walter E.; Taddei, Renzo

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100214

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“…Aumento de la sequía y su frecuencia 22 Abid et al, 2020;Akinyemi, 2017;Ayal & Leal, 2017;Bacha et al, 2018;Brussow et al, 2019;Church et al, 2020;Cooper & Wheeler, 2017;Cruz et al, 2021;Dakurah, 2020;Durrani et al, 2021;Foguesatto et al, 2018;Khan et al, 2020;Manandhar et al, 2015;Mubiru et al, 2018;Rao et al, 2017;Singh et al, 2018;Singh et al, 2020;Staub et al, 2020;Sutcliffe et al, 2016;Talanow et al, En relación con los factores que influyen sobre las percepciones ante la sequía, la primera categoría es atributos personales (con nueve componentes), siendo el más estudiado, años de experiencia en el rubro, con cinco estudios. La segunda categoría es factores cognitivos (con seis componentes) siendo el más investigado, la memoria (colectiva e individual) con tres estudios.…”

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“…Para el caso Latinoamericano, se destaca México con tres estudios, los cuales relevan no solo el aumento perceptivo del riesgo de sequía (y su severidad) a raíz de experiencias previas (Mardero et al, 2015), sino también la adopción de estrategias adaptativas sustentadas en el conocimiento local, diversificación económica, captación de aguas lluvias, cambio en los métodos de cultivo y de la dieta alimentaria (Metcalfe et al, 2020), las cuales, sin embargo, se verían disminuidas por la escasa ayuda gubernamental e institucional (Pischke et al, 2018). Otro estudio interesante para el caso latinoamericano es el de Uruguay, el que releva la influencia de los sentimientos, acceso a la información, geografía del lugar y los medios de comunicación sobre la percepción de agricultores/as (Cruz et al, 2021). En relación con los principales hallazgos encontrados podemos determinar que el sector agrícola sí perciben a la sequía como un evento extremo proveniente del cambio climático y principal riesgo en sus medios de vida (Bacha et al, 2018;Abid et al, 2020) concordando la concurrencia de estos eventos mayoritariamente con los datos climatológicos (Akinyemi, 2017).…”

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Systematic review of risk perception of farmers in the face of drought: influencing factors, perceived contents, adaptation strategies and related practices

Muñoz

Sandoval-Díaz

2023

Sci. agropecu

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Drought is an extreme climatic event that generates large impacts and losses in agriculture, causing the increase of global food insecurity and unsustainability of rural livelihoods. Based on this, the objective of this research was to conduct a systematic review of empirical studies that have reported the relationship between risk perception and adaptive strategies of farmers in the face of drought. For this reason, the review followed the guidelines and recommendations of the PRISMA statement. The databases consulted were Web of Science, Scopus and EBSCO. In total, 50 empirical studies, in Spanish and English, published between 2010 and 2021, that met the selection criteria were reviewed. The results highlight thdifferent factors influencingisk perception (years of experience, level of schooling, among others) and adaptation strategies (farm size, gender, access to credit, etc.). Finally, the effects of drought at the crop, livestock, personal and environmental levels were identified. In conclusion, we discuss its implications and limitations, highlighting the absence of studies in the Latin American region and in Spanish language. Future studies should be done with a place-based perspective, under which adaptive knowledge, beliefs, practices and actions can be recognized. On the other hand, climate change mitigation policies and programs must be proposed and implemented at a local scale.

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Systematic review of risk perception of farmers in the face of drought: influencing factors, perceived contents, adaptation strategies and related practices

Muñoz

Sandoval-Díaz

2023

Sci. agropecu

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“…Outside of Colonia, Uruguay is a highly agricultural country, with main exports being agricultural products. Uruguay is therefore subject to climate vulnerability (Cruz et al, 2021;Fourment et al, 2020;Leal Filho et al, 2018;Panario & Bidegain, 1997).…”

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Crisis to Adaptation: Assessing the Drivers of Participation in Sustainable Off-Grid Construction

Colby¹,

Whitley²

2022

HER

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development outlines 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), one of which is about creating and enhancing sustainable communities. Earthship Biotecture, with its own model within the broader ecovillage landscape, has emerged both as a transformative architecture practice and a social movement directly addressing sustainability in the building of houses and communities. This approach to off-grid infrastructure promotes do-it-yourself building utilizing trash as core building materials. Drawing on 24 interviews with Earthship Biotecture builders, we assess what pushed them out of mainstream livelihoods and what pulled them into the Earthship Biotecture community. We find that individuals were largely pushed due to personal crisis, experience of environmental tragedy, or awareness of environmental crisis. The pulls were to gain skills, overcome tragedy, become part of the solution, and ultimately be part of a community.

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“…High adaptive capacity imparts resilience to farmers, being more likely to maintain the desired state or communicate about a favourable transformation when the current state is untenable or undesirable (Lockwood et al 2015). Existing literature argue that farmers' responses to climate change impacts require technologically appropriate interventions with instrumental measures (informative, innovative or economic) (Wright et al 2014, Cruz et al 2021 but, most importantly, a better understanding of their perceptions and attitudes, including decision behaviour, as climate change becomes a matter that human beings need to comprehend and react to (Arbuckle et al 2013, Azadi et al 2019, Tiet et al 2022. For example, recent studies reveal how climate change awareness influences adaptive capacity by considering farmers' general agreement on some observed changes in weather patterns, such as the increase in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns (Ado et al 2019, Talanow et al 2021, Voss 2022, Yarong and Minpeng 2021.…”

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On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review

Ricart

Castelletti

Gandolfi

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Farmers’ perception of climate change is crucial in adaptation intention and process. However, farmers’ perceptions may not be timely, accurate and systematically consistent with the direction and significance of observational records. Although some research compared farmers’ perceptions and climate data, little attention has been paid to comprehensibly analyse both data sources discrepancies based on empirical studies results. By combining bibliometrics and a systematic review approach, we identify which approaches are used to compare perceived and observed data, how both patterns have been mutually evolved, which factors determine their (in)consistency, and if their accordance and robustness affect farmers’ adaptive capacity. We analyse a portfolio of 147 papers collected from the Scopus library catalogue since 2000. The bibliometric analysis was coupled with an exploratory analysis of 98 papers selected from the original portfolio. The literature is extensive, fast-growing, and spans several disciplines. We identify four consolidated research lines: i) perceived risk and farmers’ adaptive capacity nexus, ii) crop vulnerability due to temperature increase and erratic rainfall patterns, iii) forecasting use and influence in farmers’ decisions, and iv) climate change awareness conditioning farmers’ profiles. Nonetheless, we observe some research gaps: 1) a conceptual mismatch in ‘normal pattern’ or ‘drought’ meaning, 2) poor or limited data from meteorological stations, 3) overlook or oversimplification of local knowledge in describing perception, 4) farmers’ memory weaknesses to keep track of climate alterations, and 5) a geographical dissonance in favour of Global South regions. Our science-metric study also reveals some research questions to be consolidated: Can the perception of extreme events increase climate change awareness? Can greater awareness reduce discrepancy with observed data? How do heuristics and socio-psychological filters influence farmers’ awareness and interpretation of climate data? We suggest putting major efforts into reinforcing these research lines as part of a novel domain-dependent trend to reduce the discrepancy.

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A typology of climate information users for adaptation to agricultural droughts in Uruguay

Cited by 8 publications

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Systematic review of risk perception of farmers in the face of drought: influencing factors, perceived contents, adaptation strategies and related practices

Systematic review of risk perception of farmers in the face of drought: influencing factors, perceived contents, adaptation strategies and related practices

Crisis to Adaptation: Assessing the Drivers of Participation in Sustainable Off-Grid Construction

On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review

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