The landscape technology of spate irrigation amid development changes: Assembling the links to resources, livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity-food in the Bolivian Andes

Zimmerer, Karl S.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.04.002

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“…The positioning of small holder families within the climate change discourse may represent a strategy to be heard within the society and to benefit from climate-related political measures. Similar findings of strong interrelations between peasant perceptions, collective memory, dominant discourses and specific agricultural practices were found in other rural environments in the Andes with similar socio-ecological connections (Postigo et al, 2008;Sietz et al, 2012;Zimmerer, 1993Zimmerer, , 2011. In order to refine and specify the multiple interactions, detailed analyses of the dynamics of climate and environmental change discourses would be needed.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Since the memories of individuals are limited in space and time they are not able to mirror the complete natural and societal processes. We understand this type of human knowledge as a subject of continuous iteration be-tween individual and collective perceptions, practices and beliefs, modified by specific socio-political and discursive dynamics (Boillat and Berkes, 2013;Orlove and Caton, 2010;Orlove et al, 2008;Zimmerer, 2010Zimmerer, , 2011. Accordingly, the derived information represents a snapshot of the broad and highly complex local knowledge about environment, society and history.…”

Section: Collecting Information On Agricultural Practices and Perceivmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1) in order to guarantee diversified production for each family (Sietz et al, 2012;Vos, 2010;Zimmerer, 2011). If possible, families combine irrigation and rain-fed agriculture, but overall only few are privileged in having access to irrigation for year-round cultivation.…”

Section: Agricultural Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparing peasants' perceptions of precipitation change with precipitation records in the tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru

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Abstract. Pronounced hygric seasonality determines the regional climate and, thus, the characteristics of rainfed agriculture in the Peruvian Callejón de Huaylas (Cordillera Blanca). Peasants in the Cuenca Auqui on the eastern slopes above the city of Huaraz attribute recently experienced challenges in agricultural production mainly to perceived changes in precipitation patterns. Statistical analyses of daily precipitation records at nearby Recuay (1964Recuay ( to 2013 and Huaraz (1996 to 2013) stations do not corroborate the perceived changes. Either insufficient temporal resolution of available precipitation records or other environmental and sociopolitical factors impacting traditional farming methods may be the reason for the lack of concordance between the two information sources investigated in this study.

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“…Variation in outcomes with regard to smallholder soil and water resources depends principally on the viability of investing labor, capital, and land and the availability of these factors. This viability hinges on household capacities and endowments amid livelihood diversification that occasionally incorporates their access to the inputs of institutions working in the realm of environment and development [180]. Table 3.…”

Section: Results: Livelihood Diversification and Environmental Linkagesmentioning

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“…incorporates their access to the inputs of institutions working in the realm of environment and development [180]. Uncultivated or "wild" biodiversity associated with forest cover is incorporated as a focus in several studies related to livelihood diversification (n = 18; Table 3).…”

Section: Results: Livelihood Diversification and Environmental Linkagesmentioning

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Toward the Integrated Framework Analysis of Linkages among Agrobiodiversity, Livelihood Diversification, Ecological Systems, and Sustainability amid Global Change

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Scientific and policy interest in the biological diversity of agriculture (agrobiodiversity) is expanding amid global socioeconomic and environmental changes and sustainability interests. The majority of global agrobiodiversity is produced in smallholder food-growing. We use meta-analyses in an integrated framework to examine the interactions of smallholder agrobiodiversity with: (1) livelihood processes, especially migration, including impacts on agrobiodiversity as well as the interconnected resource systems of soil, water, and uncultivated habitats; and (2) plant-soil ecological systems. We hypothesize these interactions depend on: (1) scope of livelihood diversification and type resource system; and (2) plant residues and above-/belowground component ecological specificity. Findings show: (1) livelihood diversification is linked to varied environmental factors that range from rampant degradation to enhancing sustainability; and (2) significant ecological coupling of aboveground and soil agrobiodiversity (AGSOBIO assemblages). The environmental impacts of livelihood interactions correspond to variation of diversification (migration, on-farm diversification) and resource system (i.e., agrobiodiversity per se, soil, water). Our findings also reveal mutually dependent interactions of aboveground and soil agrobiodiversity. Results identify livelihood diversification-induced reduction of environmental resource quality with lagged agrobiodiversity declines as a potentially major avenue of global change. Our contribution re-frames livelihood interactions to include both agrobiodiversity and ecological systems. We discuss this integrated social-environmental re-framing through the proposed spatial geographic schema of regional agri-food spaces with distinctive matrices of livelihood strategies and relations to biodiversity and resources. This re-framing can be used to integrate livelihood, agrobiodiversity, and ecological analysis and to guide policy and scientific approaches for sustainability in agriculture and food-growing.

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The landscape technology of spate irrigation amid development changes: Assembling the links to resources, livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity-food in the Bolivian Andes

Cited by 35 publications

References 71 publications

Comparing peasants' perceptions of precipitation change with precipitation records in the tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru

Comparing peasants' perceptions of precipitation change with precipitation records in the tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru

Toward the Integrated Framework Analysis of Linkages among Agrobiodiversity, Livelihood Diversification, Ecological Systems, and Sustainability amid Global Change

Water Harvesting in Farmlands

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