Sustainability of lemon (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) farms in the province of Santa Elena, Ecuador

Santistevan, M.; Borjas, R.; Alvarado, Lorena Bringas; Anzules, V.; Castro, Viviana Laura; Julca, Alberto

doi:10.21704/pja.v2i3.1210

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“…En este estudio, de las 101 fincas evaluadas, una cumplió esta condición; por lo tanto, fueron consideradas no sustentables. Los resultados concuerdan con otros estudios realizados en el país que han permitido evaluar la sustentabilidad de diversos sistemas de producción agrícola (9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16) . Estos resultados muestran que alcanzar la sustentabilidad de los sistemas de producción agrícola es una tarea compleja, cuya mejora no siempre será la misma en cada una de las tres dimensiones de la sustentabilidad.…”

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Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de fincas productoras de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el cantón Puebloviejo de la provincia de Los Ríos, Ecuador

Cobos Mora,

Pino Meléndez,

Alcívar Torres

et al. 2023

Rev. Soc. cient. Parag.

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La presente investigación se realizó en el cantón Puebloviejo, provincia de Los Ríos (Ecuador), con el objetivo de evaluar la sustentabilidad de fincas productoras de cacao en esta zona. De acuerdo a la metodología propuesta por Sarandón et al. (1), se trabajó con una población total de 417 productores de cacao; empleando el método de las proporciones se obtuvo una muestra de 101 productores para el levantamiento de información de los aspectos económicos, ambientales y socioculturales de las fincas. Las fincas productoras de cacao Nacional, obtuvieron un Índice General de Sustentabilidad (ISG) de 1,89, logrando un valor de 3,0 solo en el Indicador Sociocultural (ISC). En la evaluación de sustentabilidad, las fincas productoras de cacao CCN-51, lograron un ISG de 2,26, alcanzando un valor de 3,8 en el ISC. De las 101 fincas estudiadas, el 20% son económicamente sustentables, 4% ecológicamente sustentables y el 100% socioculturalmente sustentables; sin embargo, únicamente el 1% de las fincas cumplió con todos los requisitos de la sustentabilidad y se consideró como sustentable. Los resultados muestran que se deben realizar mejoras importantes en las variables evaluadas, sobre todo en aquellas que se obtuvieron valores inferiores a 2, lo que conllevará al mejoramiento de las unidades de productivas en el cantón Puebloviejo.

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Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de fincas productoras de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el cantón Puebloviejo de la provincia de Los Ríos, Ecuador

Cobos Mora,

Pino Meléndez,

Alcívar Torres

et al. 2023

Rev. Soc. cient. Parag.

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“…Based on these recommendations, a review of references related to indicators of resilience to climate variability (references are listed in Table 1, Column 7 and [10,11,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]) was carried out, and a group of indicators and their respective weightings were constructed.…”

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“…From the point of view of the methods and indicators for the evaluation of the resilience of agroecosystems, the literature reports different approaches in local and global territorial contexts [10,11,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], most of which are related to the analysis of so-called general resilience [10]. This evaluation in developing countries has been approached with indices that seek to capture the greatest number of variables.…”

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A Method to Assess Agroecosystem Resilience to Climate Variability

2022

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Agroecosystems are influenced by climate variability, which puts their productivity at risk. However, they tend to maintain a functional state through their resilience. The literature presents several methods for assessing general resilience, but for specific resilience to climate variability, there are very few methods. An index is proposed that assesses the resilience of agroecosystems to climate variability, based on approaches and indicators that consider the interrelationships of agricultural systems with the environment. The index is made up of a set of multidimensional indicators, which give weight to the role that these play in the resilience of an agroecosystem. As a result, decision-making is assisted in the attempt to adapt or modify components of a farm, technology, and the culture of farmers. This index conceptually introduces structural and linkage indicators that assess ecological connections within farms and between farms and their environment. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, an application was implemented to evaluate the resilience to climate variability of fifty-one farms, located in Colombia, dedicated to citrus production, and it was verified that the most resilient farms were those that have the best qualified indicators, as well as being the ones with the highest level of production and profitability.

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“…Actualmente, su uso podría explicarse por ser relativamente de bajo costo, fácil de comprender y adaptable para evaluar la sustentabilidad de la mayoría de los sistemas de producción agropecuaria del Perú y otros países latinoamericanos. Sin embargo, su uso supuso un aprendizaje durante el proceso mismo de la investigación que fueron reportados por algunos autores (Santistevan et al, 2018), de manera especial durante la experiencia de construir de indicadores para los diversos sistemas de producción agrícola que encontramos en el país, como por ejemplo el café en la selva (Márquez y Julca, 2015), la quinua en la sierra (Pinedo et al, 2017) y el palto y mandarina en la costa (Collantes y Rodríguez, 2015).…”

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Sustentabilidad De Los Sistemas De Producción Agrícola: Una Revisión Sistemática De Las Metodologías Empleadas Para Su Evaluación

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Borjas‐Ventura²,

Alvarado-Huamán³

et al. 2021

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Background. Currently, agricultural production systems are intensives and develop in a context of climate change, soil degradation, environmental pollution, and scarce resources. Thus, it is necessary to know the level of sustainability of agroecosystems and its implications in economic, environmental and social terms. Objective. The aimed of this research was to carry out a systematic review of the methodologies used to evaluate the economic, environmental and social sustainability of agricultural production systems (SPA). Methodology. The study was carried out in accordance with the PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyzes), a systematic literature study was carried out in the global databases ScienceDirect, JSTOR, SpringerLink, Dialnet, Google Scholar, Google Academic, using as search terms using the Boolean operator: “evaluation, methodologies, agricultural sustainability”. Zotero (www.zotero.org), a free access manager for bibliographic references, was used. In the case of Peru, the database of the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Agriculture of the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (PDAS-UNALM) was reviewed. Results. Twenty-two frameworks or methodological proposals were found. Some frameworks and methodological proposals focus on the construction of indicators of environmental and economic sustainability and to a lesser extent social ones; others in defining sustainability indices, synthesizing values of economic, environmental and social indicators in a single numerical value; and another group that develop conceptual evaluation frameworks with a hierarchical structure of the indicators, start from attributes or objectives, perform the comparison of reference and alternative production systems, and due to their flexibility, they are applicable in different SPAs. In 88% of the sustainability study cases in Peru, the methodological proposal of "Multicriteria Analysis" was used, explained by its low cost, easy definition and interpretation of indicators and adaptable to evaluate the sustainability of most SPA from Peru. Implications. The application of methodologies to evaluate the economic, environmental and social sustainability of agricultural production systems are not rigid, in some cases they can be adapted or modified according to the criteria of the researchers based on the characteristics of the agroecosystems. Conclusions. For the evaluation of the sustainability of SPAs where a large amount of information with economic, environmental and social variables is involved, there are alternatives such as frameworks or methodological proposals that can be adapted according to the objectives, spatial analysis or their multidimensional nature. In cases of SPA sustainability analysis studies in Peru carried out between 2012 and 2020, it was found that 88% used the methodological proposal of Sarandón and Flores (2009) based on the "Multicriteria Analysis" and define the levels of sustainability with indices.

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Sustainability of lemon (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) farms in the province of Santa Elena, Ecuador

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Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de fincas productoras de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el cantón Puebloviejo de la provincia de Los Ríos, Ecuador

Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de fincas productoras de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el cantón Puebloviejo de la provincia de Los Ríos, Ecuador

A Method to Assess Agroecosystem Resilience to Climate Variability

Sustentabilidad De Los Sistemas De Producción Agrícola: Una Revisión Sistemática De Las Metodologías Empleadas Para Su Evaluación

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