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Rural livelihood diversification is associated with lower vulnerability to climate change in the Andean-Amazon foothills

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Title Rural livelihood diversification is associated with lower vulnerability to climate change in the Andean-Amazon foothills
 
Creator Beltrán Tolosa, Lucila Marcela
Cruz Garcia, Gisella
Ocampo, Jhon
Pradham, Prajal
Quintero, Marcela
 
Subject agricultural practices
farming systems
livelihood diversification
climate change
prácticas agrícolas
sistemas de explotación
diversificación de modos de vida
 
Description The Andean-Amazon foothills region, one of the richest biodiversity ecoregions on earth, is threatened by climate change combined with unsustainable agricultural and extensive livestock farming. These land-use practices tend to reduce the diversification of rural farming, decreasing households’ livelihood alternatives and rendering them more vulnerable to climate change. We studied the relationship between rural livelihood diversification and household-level vulnerability to climate change in a sample of Andean-Amazon foothills households in Colombia and Peru. Firstly, we determined typologies of households based on their rural livelihood diversification, including farming diversification (agrobiodiversity and farming activities) and agroecological management practices. Secondly, we evaluated each household typology’s vulnerability to climate change by assessing sensitivity and adaptive capacity based on the ‘livelihood assets pentagon’, which encompasses the five human capitals: natural, social, human, physical, and financial. We concluded that households with higher rural livelihood diversification are less vulnerable to climate change. However, it is impossible to draw significant conclusions about the relationship between the factors of diversification of management practices and vulnerability to climate change because most households have few agroecological practices. Results may inform future interventions that aim to decrease Andean-Amazon foothills households’ sensitivity and strengthen their adaptive capacity to climate change.
 
Date 2022-11-08
2022-11-18T09:12:41Z
2022-11-18T09:12:41Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Beltrán Tolosa, L.M.; Cruz Garcia, G.; Ocampo, J.; Pradham, P.; Quintero, M. (2022) Rural livelihood diversification is associated with lower vulnerability to climate change in the Andean-Amazon foothills. PLOS Climate 1(11): e0000051. 27 p. ISSN: 2767-3200
2767-3200
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125522
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000051
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 27 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 
Source PLOS Climate