Vulnerability of the Açaí Palm to Climate Change

Tregidgo, Daniel; Campbell, Alistair John; Rivero, Sérgio; Freitas, Madson Antonio Benjamin; Almeida, Oriana

doi:10.1007/s10745-020-00172-2

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“…However, extreme weather induced by climate change can also negatively affect fruit production. This is supported by both robust (Schwendenmann et al, 2010;Peters and Carroll, 2012;Arnold et al, 2018;Gateau-Rey et al, 2018) and least robust evidence (Boissière et al, 2013;Tregidgo et al, 2020;Wagner et al, 2021).…”

Section: Impacts Of Climate Change On Tree Fruit Production In Tafsmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…Drought can also cacao yields in TAFS by depleting moisture needed for Ceratopogonidae (cacao midges and pollinators) larvae, reducing their abundance (Arnold et al, 2018). Our least robust evidence suggested that extreme hot weather could also reduce acai fruit production by preventing the trees from bearing fruits (Tregidgo et al, 2020), and severe storms could destroy fruit trees in homegardens and cause a direct loss of fruit production (Boissière et al, 2013). Equally weak evidence, however, suggests that it is unlikely that higher temperatures and increasing rainfall would increase the prevalence of coffee tree pests in TAFS (Jaramillo et al, 2013), though coffee fruit size and quality are still likely to decline from the associated accelerated ripening (Wagner et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 82%

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Impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems: A systematic review for identifying future research priorities

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Hutton

Guel

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Front. For. Glob. Change

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Climate change is expected to adversely affect the crop yields and food security for many smallholder farmers in the tropics unless adaptive measures are implemented. Agroforestry ecosystem services, such as micro-climate buffering, have received growing attention from the academic and policy communities for alleviating the negative impacts of climate change on smallholders. These benefits imply that agroforestry could offer a suitable measure for adaptation to climate change. However, whether agroforestry systems themselves succumb to the adverse effects of climate change is often less studied in the agroforestry literature. Consequently, less is known about how climate change will impact agroforests. We conducted a systematic review, which included an evidence quality assessment, to examine the impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems (TAFS). Based primarily on studies undertaking biophysical approaches, we found that climate change negatively impacts TAFS by reducing tree growth, intensifying tree-crop resource competition and reducing crop yields. However, the impacts on smallholder farmers are less clear due to limited evidence in the relevant literature. We found that the evidence supporting our findings is mostly “robust”, although “least robust” strength evidence was also commonly found. We conclude that to improve understanding of how climate change could affect the performance of TAFS as a social ecological system, more interdisciplinary studies are required. Furthermore, to improve the quality of evidence in the research field, studies should explore using mountain elevation gradients for climate analog analysis to perform the most robust study designs. We provide an interdisciplinary conceptual model, which considers the interactions and feedbacks between TAFS components noted from our review to predict the response of ecosystem services provisioning and farmers' wellbeing to climate change, to guide interdisciplinary studies using climate analog analysis.

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Section: Impacts Of Climate Change On Tree Fruit Production In Tafsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Impacts Of Climate Change On Tree Fruit Production In Tafsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems: A systematic review for identifying future research priorities

Watts

Hutton

Guel

et al. 2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…Climate change is interfering negatively in the production of açaí in hot years (Tregidgo et al 2020), and productivity more generally has been affected by the erosion of diversity of açai varieties, resulting from the greater intensification of the management of açaizais (Freitas et al 2015;Campbell et al 2017). Amazonians are adapting in diverse ways to these challenges.…”

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Capítulo 15: Sistemas de subsistencia y agronegocios complejos, diversos y cambiantes en la Amazonía

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Relatório De Avaliação Da Amazônia 2021

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“…Açaí e açaizeiro são denominações populares da palmeira Euterpe oleracea e seu fruto é encontrando em estado silvestre, formando parte da vegetação florística das matas de terra firme, de várzea e de igapó (Almeida, et al, 2021;Silva, & Freitas, 2020;Calzavara, 1972). A maior população desta palmeira se encontra no estado do Pará, em que se desenvolve de forma espontânea ou cultivada, e faz parte da composição florística caracterizada por condições tipicamente tropicais de temperatura, de precipitação e de umidade do estuário Amazônico (Mourão, 1999;Tregidgo et al, 2020;Farias & Brito, 2022).…”

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Expansão da exploração do fruto do açaí no Estuário Amazônico: o caso da comunidade São João Batista no município de Abaetetuba, Pará

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Almeida

Lavado-Solis

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Este estudo teve como objetivo fazer uma análise econômica da cadeia produtiva de açaí na comunidade São João Batista, no município de Abaetetuba, Pará, Brasil. Realizaram-se 31 entrevistas semi-estruturadas e abertas a famílias de pequenos e médios produtores de açaí. Essa atividade gerou a maior renda na época da safra do açaí, que variou entre R$ 800 até pouco mais do que R$ 1.000 nos meses de maior produção (agosto-outubro). O preço de venda dos produtores primários na comunidade variou, de acordo com a época da safra, tendo um baixo custo, durante o pico da safra (agosto-outubro), pela abundância do fruto de açaí ofertado. Concluindo, o impacto produzido do manejo no cultivo dos açaizais sobre a economia ribeirinha e economia extrativa do estuário amazônico gerou melhorias na renda e na qualidade de vida das populações das várzeas.

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Vulnerability of the Açaí Palm to Climate Change

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

Impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems: A systematic review for identifying future research priorities

Impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems: A systematic review for identifying future research priorities

Capítulo 15: Sistemas de subsistencia y agronegocios complejos, diversos y cambiantes en la Amazonía

Expansão da exploração do fruto do açaí no Estuário Amazônico: o caso da comunidade São João Batista no município de Abaetetuba, Pará

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