Articles
Potential of agroforestry systems as sustainable alternatives in Yurimaguas, Peru
Article number
1355_29
Pages
225 – 232
Language
English
Abstract
Agriculture in Peru contributes on average in 5% of the gross domestic product and employs directly or indirectly 30% of the economically active population, developing in a great diversity of agro-ecological ecosystems from the hyper-arid zone to the per-humid zone in the Amazon basin.
This agriculture activity occupies at least one million hectares and is responsible for 35% of the water use (consumptive and non-consumptive consumption), involving an agrobiodiversity of more than a hundred species, both native and introduced.
Within the agricultural context there was a development of an innovative management of agroforestry systems (AFS) that is still in process of adoption, scaling-up and in demonstrating the sustainability of silvopastoral and agroforestry prototypes.
The research was carried out in a total of 11 communities at Yurimaguas District (Loreto, Peru) with a non-probabilistic sample of 18 farmers that were interviewed with a questionnaire with 147 variables.
The statistical methods were a numerical data summary (NDS), exploratory data analysis (EDA) and multivariate techniques, with factor analysis and cluster analysis.
The main results described a complex strategy of conformation of agroforestry systems (AFS) based on forest implementation and conservation.
It was also established that social housing conditions, services availability, among others, were diverse changing not only from one farmhouse to another, but from one farmer to another.
Two indices were estimated, one on food security and another on perception or subjective well-being, which allow farmers to be classified in terms of medium to high well-being, with indices ranging between 0.57 to 1. Similar situation was appreciated in the case of food safety.
Finally, the factor analysis was satisfactory according to the KMO (Kayser M Olguin) statistics and Bartlett sphericity, and it was possible to explain 64.4% of the variance with three dimensions, allowing farmers to be identified according to the social, economic and environmental sustainability indices.
This agriculture activity occupies at least one million hectares and is responsible for 35% of the water use (consumptive and non-consumptive consumption), involving an agrobiodiversity of more than a hundred species, both native and introduced.
Within the agricultural context there was a development of an innovative management of agroforestry systems (AFS) that is still in process of adoption, scaling-up and in demonstrating the sustainability of silvopastoral and agroforestry prototypes.
The research was carried out in a total of 11 communities at Yurimaguas District (Loreto, Peru) with a non-probabilistic sample of 18 farmers that were interviewed with a questionnaire with 147 variables.
The statistical methods were a numerical data summary (NDS), exploratory data analysis (EDA) and multivariate techniques, with factor analysis and cluster analysis.
The main results described a complex strategy of conformation of agroforestry systems (AFS) based on forest implementation and conservation.
It was also established that social housing conditions, services availability, among others, were diverse changing not only from one farmhouse to another, but from one farmer to another.
Two indices were estimated, one on food security and another on perception or subjective well-being, which allow farmers to be classified in terms of medium to high well-being, with indices ranging between 0.57 to 1. Similar situation was appreciated in the case of food safety.
Finally, the factor analysis was satisfactory according to the KMO (Kayser M Olguin) statistics and Bartlett sphericity, and it was possible to explain 64.4% of the variance with three dimensions, allowing farmers to be identified according to the social, economic and environmental sustainability indices.
Authors
L. Aragón, H. Huarhua, M. Cerna, J. Flores, A. Dueñas, C.P. Lao, R. Solis, A. Casas, J. Alegre
Keywords
sustainability indicators, Yurimaguas, agroforestry system
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