Geographic concentration and climate vulnerability: The case of fruit production in Uruguay
Climate change and variability will negatively affect the production and access to healthy and diverse foods. In Uruguay, fruit growing has a strong historical link with food production and family farming. The main destination of the harvest is internal consumption as fresh fruit and the 80% of the production takes place in family farms. The geographical concentration of the production in the south of the country increases exposure to climatic variability and is considered one of the factors that explain vulnerability. Total production in 2013 was the lowest since 2005, attributed to a wind and hail storm that affected a 46% of the total cultivated. Climatic vulnerability of fruit growing in Uruguay was analyzed through Intensity of Harm, an indicator calculated from crop losses, and its relationship with the geographical concentration of production. Integration of Intensities of Harm in a GIS allowed to identify the pattern of spatial distribution of hail, coinciding with the area of cultivation. From Agroecology, it discusses a proposal for diversification at landscape scale as a strategy to reducing vulnerability of fruit production in Uruguay and allows the generation of strengthening processes to food sovereignty and family farming.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2020
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/revagro/article/view/10932 |
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