SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS, FOR THE DESIGN OF AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITION ROUTES IN PEASANT COFFEE FARMS
SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS, FOR THE DESIGN OF AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITION ROUTES IN PEASANT COFFEE FARMS
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9733192328112
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Palavras-chave: caficultura, trópico, campesinado, caracterización, cambio climático.
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Keywords: coffee growing, tropics, peasantry, characterization, climate change.
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Abstract:
The strengthening of sustainable coffee farming, adapted to climate change, required generating an evaluation using indicators, which allowed obtaining a diagnosis of each farm, thereby identifying the critical points and mitigation actions for the existing risks in each of the productive subsystems, such as: agricultural, livestock and forestry, without forgetting the social component represented by coffee-growing families. This field input that is generated from visits to the farms, achieves the design of agroecological transition routes, for this it is necessary to apply a participatory methodology, which allows between researchers and farmers in a dialogue of knowledge, to generate sustainability strategies for the coffee-growing families and their productive systems. The general purpose of this research was to propose a methodology that allows the evaluation of sustainability through indicators that are evaluated from 0.0 as the lowest score or smallest scale of sustainability and 5.0 points as the highest scale of sustainability, for the subsequent generation of sustainable routes for farm management, the application of the work was developed in 9 coffee farms in the municipality of Timbio, Cauca, Colombia. The validation of the methodology concludes that by achieving a diagnosis of the farms, in environmental, economic, socio-cultural and technical terms, for the agroecological school farms that have scores less than 3.0, improvement implementation strategies are proposed. and it is possible to formulate a transition plan towards sustainable and resilient agroecological systems in the face of the effects of climate change.
- Gustavo Adolfo Alegría Fernández
- Yulieth Mera.