干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): An index of environmental and cultural suitability for the cultivation of climate- resilient castor bean in rainfed low-productivity common lands in Mexico

Arid

DOI	10.4081/ija.2023.2107
	An index of environmental and cultural suitability for the cultivation of climate- resilient castor bean in rainfed low-productivity common lands in Mexico
	Chun, Carolina Vazquez; Uribe, Gabriel de Jesus Pena; Santos, Armando Lopez; Jimenez, Antonio de Jesus Meraz
通讯作者	Uribe, GDP
来源期刊	ITALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY
ISSN	1125-4718
EISSN	2039-6805
出版年	2023
卷号	18 期号:1
英文摘要	Castor bean plants yield commercially important oilseeds with multiple uses; they are characterised by tolerance to drought and adaptation to marginal soils in arid and semi-arid regions. In northern Mexico, a large amount of arid land is categorised as eji-dos: a system of mixed land ownership managed under a specific legal system, where land users have access to common or individ-ual (parcelled) land. This work aimed to examine the suitability of castor bean cultivation on unused marginal land in ejido land. To determine the environmental suitability of the ejido lands of Coahuila, Mexico, we adapted a land productivity index (PI) from an existing method; it consisted of a set of biophysical indicators (edaphic factors, climate, and topography) adapted to castor bean cultivation. We then complemented this index with a cultural com-ponent, assessing the ethnobotanical knowledge of the people, their willingness to implement a new crop type, and the type and current use of the land. As a result, we found that 114,300 ha of ejido land (1.76% of the total) were very suitable for castor bean cultivation according to the environmental-PI and that 808,524 ha of ejido land (12.4% of the total) was very suitable according to the cultural-PI. We also hypothesised that the willingness of eji-datarios to cultivate castor beans was related to their degree of knowledge about the plant and the land available for its cultiva-tion; however, their willingness was mostly related to differences in land tenure: ejidatarios who own parcelled land were more interested in obtaining benefits from the land through the imple-mentation of novel crops, compared to those who only have access to common land.
英文关键词	arid regions castor bean cultural component ejido pro-ductivity indices
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000968351700003
WOS关键词	SYSTEMS
WOS类目	Agronomy
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/397081
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chun, Carolina Vazquez,Uribe, Gabriel de Jesus Pena,Santos, Armando Lopez,et al. An index of environmental and cultural suitability for the cultivation of climate- resilient castor bean in rainfed low-productivity common lands in Mexico[J],2023,18(1).
APA	Chun, Carolina Vazquez,Uribe, Gabriel de Jesus Pena,Santos, Armando Lopez,&Jimenez, Antonio de Jesus Meraz.(2023).An index of environmental and cultural suitability for the cultivation of climate- resilient castor bean in rainfed low-productivity common lands in Mexico.ITALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY,18(1).
MLA	Chun, Carolina Vazquez,et al."An index of environmental and cultural suitability for the cultivation of climate- resilient castor bean in rainfed low-productivity common lands in Mexico".ITALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY 18.1(2023).