Percepción de resiliencia al cambio climático de los productores de café de Zaruma, año 2020

Abstract

Abstract: Climate change is a global problem. The impact it causes in all sectors is growing, among them is the agricultural sector, whose production depends on the direct from the weather. The objective of the research is to evaluate the perception of resilience to change climate of the coffee producers of Zaruma. The research is exploratory and descriptive, Analytical - synthetic and deductive methods were used, for the information gathering, used a questionnaire to 252 farmers engaged in coffee cultivation. The results showed that coffee growers consider that global warming affects the growth and production of coffee plantations, in view of this a large part of the coffee growers on their own initiative have proceeded to take measures to increase resilience in crops, among them are: renewing the plantations, planting plants to generate shade, incorporating irrigation systems.