Record Details

A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050
 
Creator Ramírez Villegas, Julián
Salazar Villegas, Mike
Jarvis, Andy
Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo
 
Subject agriculture
climate
socioecological systems
adaptation
 
Description Policy measures regarding adaptation to climate change include efforts to adjust socio-economic and ecologic systems. Colombia has undertaken various measures in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation since becoming a party of the Kyoto protocol in 2001 and a party of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1995. The first national communication to the UNFCCC stated how Colombian agriculture will be severely impacted under different emission scenarios and time frames. The analyses in this document further support that climate change will severely threaten the socioeconomics of Colombian agriculture. We first query national data sources to characterize the agricultural sector. We then use 17 Global Circulation Model (GCM) outputs to quantify how Colombian agricultural production may be affected by climate change, and show the expected changes to years 2040 2069 ( 2050 ) under the A2 scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES-A2) and the overall trends in both precipitation and temperature to 2100. We then evaluate expected changes within different regions and measure the proportion of area affected within each crop s distributional range. By 2050, climatic change in Colombia will likely impact 3.5 million people, 14 % of national GDP corresponding to agriculture, employment of 21 % of the population, agro-industries, supply chains, and food and nutritional security. If no adaptation measures are taken, 80 % of crops would be impacted in more than 60 % of their current areas of cultivation, with particularly severe impacts in high value perennial and exportable crops. Impacts also include soil degradation and organic matter losses in the Andes hillsides; likely flooding in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts; niche losses for coffee, fruit, cocoa, and bananas; changes in prevalence of pests and diseases; and increases in the vulnerabilities of non-technically developed smallholders. There is, however, still time to change the current levels of vulnerability if a multidisciplinary focus (i.e., agronomic, economic, and social) in vulnerable sectors is undertaken. Each sub-sector and the Government need to invest in: (1) data collection, (2) detailed, regionally-based impact assessments, (3) research and development, and (4) extension and technology transfer. Support to vulnerable smallholders should be given by the state in the form of agricultural insurance systems contextualized under the phenomenon of climate change. A national coordination scheme led by (but not restricted to) the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) with the contributions of national and international institutions is needed to address agricultural adaptation.
 
Date 2012-12
2014-08-15T12:13:20Z
2014-08-15T12:13:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ramirez-Villegas J, Salazar M, Jarvis A, Navarro-Racines CE. 2012. A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050. Climatic Change 115(3-4):611-628.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42053
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0500-y
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format p. 611-628
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Climatic Change