Social-ecological resilience: Knowledge of agrobiodiversity by campesinos and migrants in the face of global changes

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dc.contributor.authorIbarra, Jose Tomas
dc.contributor.authorCaviedes, Julian
dc.contributor.authorMonterrubio-Solis, Constanza
dc.contributor.authorBarreau, Antonia
dc.contributor.authorMarchant, Carla
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T16:08:31Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T16:08:31Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThere is concern that agrobiodiversity is being irreversibly eroded in the face of agricultural industrialization. While academic and policy debates stress loss of landraces, little attention has been paid to evaluating how agricultural knowledge systems endure in response to broader social-ecological changes (i.e., "system's resilience"). For being resilient, agricultural knowledge systems should incorporate new information (modern seed varieties) whilst maintaining its traditional components (landraces) and functions. However, the loss or continuing utilization of landraces may be influenced by several social-ecological filters, which are processes that selectively remove varieties according to their phenotype, local uses, or value. We examined the resilience of agricultural knowledge systems in the southern Andes. These systems include the knowledge of landraces and modern varieties by campesinos and lifestyle migrants. We further assessed the association of social-ecological filters with the knowledge of agrobiodiversity. Over four years (2018-2022), we used mixed-methods including semi-structured interviews with gardener experts and conducted knowledge exercises of seed varieties and surveys of gardeners (n = 132). We assessed the association of 'knowledge score on varieties' (general, landraces, and modern) with a priori-defined social-ecological filters. Gardeners with more proficient knowledge of landraces were more knowledgeable of modern varieties too. The general knowledge of agrobiodiversity and the knowledge of landraces, but not of modern varieties, was higher for campesinos than migrants. The main seed source of gardeners, the participation in seed exchanges, gardeners' origin, and gardeners' age were the social-ecological filters that influenced gardeners ' knowledge of agrobiodiversity. We highlight that socialecological, small-scale farming systems, are being resilient when they have the capacity of incorporating new information (knowledge of modern varieties) whilst maintaining their identity (knowledge of landraces) without undergoing a major shift in their basic structures and functions in this Important Agricultural Heritage Site and Global Biodiversity Hotspot, and beyond.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122461
dc.identifier.eissn1095-8630
dc.identifier.issn0301-4797
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122461
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/90085
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001314873600001
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaJournal of environmental management
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectSeeds
dc.subjectSocial-ecological filters
dc.subjectImportant agricultural heritage systems
dc.subjectSmall-scale farmers
dc.subjectChile
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleSocial-ecological resilience: Knowledge of agrobiodiversity by campesinos and migrants in the face of global changes
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen370
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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