Advancing towards an understanding of the relationship between culture and agrobiodiversity. A case study in Mapuche territory, southern Chile

Spirito, Florencia; Vieli, Lorena; Montalba, René

doi:10.1080/27685241.2022.2083987

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“…We conducted our research in the Toltén watershed in the La Araucanía region of southern Chile (Fig. 1), an ancestral Mapuche territory (Spirito et al 2022). The watershed is characterized Restoration Ecology January 2024 as rural and has a diversity of cultures including Chileans and Mapuche people (INE 2017).…”

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Linking people and riparian forests: a sociocultural and ecological approach to plan integrative restoration in farmlands

Lucero

Ibarra

Rojas

2023

Restoration Ecology

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Global initiatives to restore habitats aim to improve ecosystem health; however, restoration programs are challenged with balancing human needs with ecological restoration objectives. To advise programs that aim to restore forest in farmlands and complement other analyses on ecologically‐based reference sites, we (1) identified species with sociocultural importance, termed as “priority species”; (2) developed an integrative index to find habitats where priority species coincide with healthy ecological conditions (i.e. relatively high diversity, specific plant composition, etc.); and (3) evaluated whether sociodemographic profiles of landowners influenced their plant knowledge and ecological condition of habitats. Our approach was applied to riparian forests in farmlands of the Toltén watershed in southern Chile. We conducted structured interviews to gather information on traditional uses and management of trees in riparian habitats from 45 landowners. We developed an integrative index by combining sociocultural information from interviews with existing vegetation data. From the list of 65 trees provided by landowners, we selected five priority species based on their high saliency, multiple uses, and known management. Only 6 out of 98 sites had high integrative index scores, with the majority showing low values for sociocultural and ecological conditions. Except for a difference in ecological criteria and gender, the evaluation of landowners' knowledge level with sociodemographic profiles did not show significant relationships. These findings suggest that our integrative index can guide the design of restoration objectives, emphasizing on species that are important to local communities by providing information on the ecological conditions in which these plants co‐occur.

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Linking people and riparian forests: a sociocultural and ecological approach to plan integrative restoration in farmlands

Lucero

Ibarra

Rojas

2023

Restoration Ecology

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“…Traditional potato farmers in the Peruvian Andes speak Quechua, Aymara, Jaqaru and/or Spanish. Biocultural diversity in turn has great predictive power for landrace richness and is therefore a valuable variable to consider when evaluating potential hotspots (Perales et al, 2005;Ureta et al, 2013), with higher proportions of indigenous farmers being associated with greater landrace diversity (Spirito et al, 2022). Geospatial data on the proportion of indigenous languages spoken was taken from agricultural census data and applied exclusively to farmers cultivating potato landraces (INEI, 2012).…”

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Identifying priority sites for the on-farm conservation of landraces and systematic diversity monitoring through an integrated multi-level hotspot analysis: the case of potatoes in Peru

Dawson

Juárez

Maxted

et al. 2023

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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IntroductionEffective monitoring of the in situ conservation status and change dynamics of landrace populations in their centers of origin ideally requires the identification of sites that are complementary in terms of the richness, uniqueness and coverage of genetic diversity.MethodsWe applied a 4-step approach to identify sites of high potato landrace diversity which will guide the set-up of a network of complementary prospective conservation observatories in Peru, the potato center of origin. A GIS mapping approach was used to determine which combination of sites would provide the most comprehensive and complementary genepool coverage. A landrace inventory was developed from 49 sources, comprising 47,272 landrace records, 97.1% with coordinates, which was used to derive landrace, cultivated species, and cultivar group richness. Data on known indicators of agrobiodiversity, including potato wild relative concurrence, cultivated area, ecogeographic diversity, and ethnolinguistic diversity were included in the spatial overlay analysis, which was used in conjunction with expert opinion data to provide further insight to hotspot selection.ResultsThirteen hotspots with high, unique, and complementary levels of landrace diversity were identified. We recommend that robust baselines are established, documenting current diversity in these sites using semi-standardized methods and metrics for future tracking.DiscussionOur results, while being the most robust of their kind to date, were inevitably affected by data gaps, infrastructure and hotspot biases. New documentation efforts should record landrace diversity in uncovered regions, as well as explore complementary mechanisms to track the conservation status of unique endemic landraces that occur in coldspots.

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Advancing towards an understanding of the relationship between culture and agrobiodiversity. A case study in Mapuche territory, southern Chile

Cited by 2 publications

References 60 publications

Linking people and riparian forests: a sociocultural and ecological approach to plan integrative restoration in farmlands

Linking people and riparian forests: a sociocultural and ecological approach to plan integrative restoration in farmlands

Identifying priority sites for the on-farm conservation of landraces and systematic diversity monitoring through an integrated multi-level hotspot analysis: the case of potatoes in Peru

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