Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Goldberg, Zachary; Powell, Bronwen; Ouarghidi, Abderrahim

doi:10.1007/s10745-021-00248-7

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“…Feintrenie et al (2010), for example, observed in Indonesian agroforestry systems that economic dimension takes precedence over other values, such as cultural or sentimental attachment, and can quickly transform a diversified system into a monoculture. However, our study found that market integration does not necessarily mean lower crop diversity, as documented in previous studies (Goldberg et al, 2021;Vadez et al, 2004).…”

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Agrobiodiversity dynamics in a French wine-growing region

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Agrobiodiversity is a promising nature-based solution in the pursuit of sustainable agriculture. In wine-growing systems, commercial pressure and varietal regulations have narrowed agrobiodiversity in vineyards despite higher diversity being an important buffer against the effects of climate change. If drivers of grape diversity change are well-understood at national to global scales, little is known about the local, past or anticipated trajectories that drive agrobiodiversity dynamics depending on growers’ cultural values, practices and choices. We combined quantitative agricultural census data and qualitative ethnographic approaches to characterise changes in the diversity of grape varieties from 1960 to 2020 at the communal and vineyard levels in a French wine-growing region, and to decipher the drivers of change. We highlight that vineyards have drastically changed in 60 years, with a decline in planted area and in farm number. We outline that despite a loss of varietal richness across both vineyard and communal scales, varietal richness remains high and evenness have increased across geographic scales in 2020. Ethnographic field observations emphasize that growers account for external drivers (e.g., market changes, regulation and policy, technology, environmental), but also cultural values when they choose which grape varieties to plant. Grape diversity was maintained despite market integration as an insurance to spread production risk, mitigate market volatility and address environmental uncertainties. Securing livelihoods in the midst of market changes has been a major concern for growers over the last six decades and remains so. Despite a pessimistic future vision of the vineyard shared by most growers, the Gaillac region has a cultural heritage that values diversity and that thereby supports adaptation to climate change. We expect that environmental factors may play a more important role in grape selection and planting sites in the future under the influence of climate change and pesticide reduction policies. In order to expand individual initiatives resulting in diversified grape selection, growers need to be better connected with stakeholders at a variety of institutional levels.

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Agrobiodiversity dynamics in a French wine-growing region

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“…This is because although agrobiodiversity can be used to mitigate risks and stabilise both yields and incomes (Kremen and Merenleder, 2018), farmers' short-term decisions are often based on how 'pro table' crop varieties or livestock breeds are (Bellon et al, 2020). Global market integration, land use change and migration further contribute to changing farmer maintenance of crop diversity (Zimmerer and de Haan, 2017; Goldberg et al, 2021).…”

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Are public good ecosystem services generated by on farm conservation of crop diversity valued by the general public?

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Agrobiodiversity is associated with a range of important but poorly quantified public good ecosystem services, the conservation of which requires public support. With a view to determining the general public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for such conservation, 491 adult Peruvian residents were interviewed using a stated preference choice experiment (CE) to elicit the value they place on crop genetic resources conservation, using quinoa as a case study. Strong support for the conservation of quinoa diversity was revealed, in particular when conservation was framed in terms of conserving the national cultural identity or food security. Respondents were willing to donate most for quinoa conservation to minimise production losses and to maintain the crop’s existence. Findings demonstrate the significant and frequently ignored social welfare benefits associated with non-market agrobiodiversity-related public good ecosystem services, in this case equivalent to a third of market production values. Given the relatively modest costs of securing such ecosystem services, we calculated a conservative benefit-cost ratio of 1.7.

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Development through commodification: exploring apple commodity production as pesticide promotion in the High Atlas

Goldberg

2021

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Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Cited by 7 publications

References 67 publications

Agrobiodiversity dynamics in a French wine-growing region

Agrobiodiversity dynamics in a French wine-growing region

Are public good ecosystem services generated by on farm conservation of crop diversity valued by the general public?

Development through commodification: exploring apple commodity production as pesticide promotion in the High Atlas

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