Belowground and Aboveground Sustainability: Historical Management Change in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem (Les Oluges, Spain, 1860–1959-1999)

Díez, Lucía; Olarieta, José Ramón; Aragay, Enric Tello

doi:10.1007/s10745-019-00105-8

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“…According [25], farmers knowledge determines the adaptation strategy. Farmers understanding about land conditions will determines for management and sustainability [26].…”

Section: Farmer Knowledgementioning

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Traditions of soil and water conservation based on farmer knowledge as an adaptation to climate condition in dry land

Anshori

Suswatiningsih

Mujiyo

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Drought and decreased soil fertility are the classic problems in dry land agriculture. Farmers adapt these conditions in the form of soil and water conservation practices. This study aimed to find out 1) Tradition of soil and water conservation based on farmer knowledge as an adaptation to climate condition, and 2) Prospective technology for adaptation and mitigation of climate change in dry land. The research was conducted in the dry land of the karst area on Girisubo Gunungkidul D.I. Yogyakarta Indonesia, from September to November 2019, during the dry season. The research used the method of observation and farmer interviews. The results showed that tradition of conservation practices were carried out by farmers based on knowledge and information, with motive of economics and survival. Conservation practices as a form of adaptation, based on the management and potency of water, soil, and biomass resources. Water management includes making simple dam, making well, harvesting groundwater, and applying cropping pattern. Soil management includes making terrace, planting grass on terrace, and applying organic fertilizer. Conservation practice is one of the adaptive actions, with mitigation of climate change as a co-benefit. Practices that have the potential for adaptation with co-benefit mitigation are water and soil management, variety selection, direct seed planting, and composting. Farmers, as the main factor in tradition of conservation practices, determine the sustainability of agricultural system. SWC practices have potential to develop into adaptation co-benefit mitigation to climate change.

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“…According [25], farmers knowledge determines the adaptation strategy. Farmers understanding about land conditions will determines for management and sustainability [26].…”

Section: Farmer Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Traditions of soil and water conservation based on farmer knowledge as an adaptation to climate condition in dry land

Anshori

Suswatiningsih

Mujiyo

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Understanding the rationale and advantages of a traditional Mediterranean intercropping system in the nineteenth century

Díez Sanjuán,

Migliorini

2023

Agric Hum Values

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Traditional agricultural systems in Mediterranean Europe were characterised by diversity and multifunctionality, and polycultures played a fundamental role in them. Some of these farm systems and the traditional agricultural practices linked to them have now largely disappeared, but they are increasingly recognised as a valuable source of agroecological knowledge. In this study, we seek to recover the long-lost experience from a traditional Mediterranean intercropping system that combined the cultivation of vines and cereals. Using local historical resources available for a Catalan village for the second half of the nineteenth century, we compare the characteristics and functioning of intercropping and monocultures of vines and cereals using socioeconomic and agrarian metabolism indicators, and discuss the advantages of the traditional intercropping system as an adaptation to the productive limitations of the agroecosystem (particularly in terms of soil quality and productivity, and availability of labour and draft force), but also as a peasant economy strategy that responded to a multifunctional balancing rationale. This way, this research contributes to recovering the knowledge and experience of a long-lasting traditional crop system that had been used until the second half of the twentieth century, and provides an understanding of the rationale and advantages of traditional Mediterranean crop systems beyond productivity and profit maximisation strategies.

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Socioecological transformations at the specialized productive space in coffee and sugarcane in the context of the Green Revolution. Costa Rica (1955–1973)

Montero

Dermott

2023

Ecological Economics

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Belowground and Aboveground Sustainability: Historical Management Change in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem (Les Oluges, Spain, 1860–1959-1999)

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Traditions of soil and water conservation based on farmer knowledge as an adaptation to climate condition in dry land

Traditions of soil and water conservation based on farmer knowledge as an adaptation to climate condition in dry land

Understanding the rationale and advantages of a traditional Mediterranean intercropping system in the nineteenth century

Socioecological transformations at the specialized productive space in coffee and sugarcane in the context of the Green Revolution. Costa Rica (1955–1973)

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