Bibliographic citations
Quinteros, D., (2022). Viabilidad de los sistemas agrarios tradicionales como productos emergentes o suma de partes en un estudio de caso de Cajatambo [Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5423
Quinteros, D., Viabilidad de los sistemas agrarios tradicionales como productos emergentes o suma de partes en un estudio de caso de Cajatambo []. PE: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5423
@phdthesis{renati/247989,
title = "Viabilidad de los sistemas agrarios tradicionales como productos emergentes o suma de partes en un estudio de caso de Cajatambo",
author = "Quinteros Carlos, Diana Zulema",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2022"
}
A good percentage of Peru's agricultural production is developed on Andean slopes such as Cajatambo. It has low yields, poor farmers, occupies a good percentage of the Economically Active Population and is an important source of food. The viability - sustainability indicator - of such a traditional agroecosystem, Cajatambo district, has been evaluated, as an emerging product of the interaction of variables, instead the classical perspective that understand sustainability as a linear sum of them. The objectives were: 1) to identify the parts of the agroecosystem at three levels: macro (climate), meso (soil, vegetation) and micro (human management); 2) to identify interactions between variables through a narrative and, 3) to determine sustainability indicators understood as instruments dependent on theoretical frameworks or worldviews that make sense. There are seven Equipotential Life Zones (macro structure), 12 Plant Vegetation types (meso structure) and four Production Systems (micro structure). The ARDI approach (Actors, Resources, Dynamics, Interactions) of Cajatambo´s social actors perception about their agroecosystem has shown that the Actors are urban and Resources are Rural; the most important dynamics are agricultural and some maintain undesirable states (negative resilience) and others promote transformations to worse conditions (negative transformability). It has been shown also: potential competition for water between urban and irrigation uses, mediated by “urban ruralites”; potential competition for the space between alfalfa and fruit trees; low milk prices that induce emigration due to the perception of poor quality of life and complementarity between agriculture under irrigation and processes that affect wild species. Understanding the agroecosystem as an Adaptive Complex System showed sustainability aspects invisible with the linear approach: key variables, alternative states for the agroecosystem and processes that affect them. Finally, since complex systems are context dependent, it is not possible to generalize results; Each agroecosystem has its own “personality“ and requires a particular, heuristic, non-algorithmic treatment.
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