Barriers and potentials of agricultural producers that affect their adaptation capacity to climate change in the Meseta Comiteca Tojolabal, Chiapas, Mexico

Barreras y potencialidades de los productores agrícolas que inciden en su capacidad de adaptación al cambio climático en la Meseta Comiteca Tojolabal, Chiapas, México

María de Lourdes Maldonado Méndez, Alejandro Ismael Monterroso Rivas, Laura Judith Escárraga-Torres, Elizabeth Bustos Linares and Nicole Sibelet ()
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María de Lourdes Maldonado Méndez: Universidad Autonoma Chapingo
Alejandro Ismael Monterroso Rivas: UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Laura Judith Escárraga-Torres: Universidad Autonoma Chapingo
Elizabeth Bustos Linares: UNAL - Universidad Nacional de Colombia [Bogotà]
Nicole Sibelet: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: Chiapas is a Mexican state that is highly vulnerable to climate change, mainly due to its location in the intertropical zone and socioeconomic conditions. Our objective in this research was to identify the barriers and potentialities of agricultural producers in the Meseta Comiteca Tojolabal region that affect the estimation of their capacity to adapt to climate change. We applied 108 questionnaires to predominantly agricultural, livestock, or forestry producers, and we conducted ten interviews with public officials and agricultural extensionists in each municipality of the region. Through qualitative analysis, each producer was categorized based on the typology of agricultural producers in the context of climate change, and we evaluated 16 indicators. 85 % of the surveyed producers belong to family producers, 56 % belonging to types 1 to 6, considered subsistence family producers with a higher risk due to sensitivity level and exposure to climate change. Natural resources, land security ownership, and diversification of income sources are potentialities of the surveyed producers, while we identified barriers such as deficiencies in human resources, social capital, institutional capacity, and economic resources.

Keywords: Chiapas; Mexique; adaptation aux changements climatiques; impact socioéconomique; changement climatique; système d'exploitation agricole; production agricole; possibilité de production; agriculture familiale; Capacidad de adaptación; Determinantes; Factores; Vulnerabilidad; capacité d'adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Sociedad y Ambiente, 2024, 27, 26 p. ⟨10.31840/sya.v2024i27.2897⟩

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DOI: 10.31840/sya.v2024i27.2897

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