Climate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management.

ABSTRACT: Most studies on climate change's impacts on agriculture focus on modeling techniques based on large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmer's perception of climate change's impacts can affect crop diversity and crop management practices, especially in industrialized contexts. To fill this gap, we conducted 24 semi-structured interviews in a study site located in the Catalan Pyrenees. Our results show for the first time in an industrialized context that farmers perceive multiple interrelated climate change impacts on local agroecosystems. For instance, snowfall and freeze events have decreased, which respondents associated with the increase of pests and diseases affecting both wild flora and cultivated plants. Similarly, changes in precipitation patterns lead to a

SUBMITTER: Blanch-Ramirez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9438384 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature