Fishing and farming in the desert'? A platform for understanding El Niño food system opportunities in the context climate change in Sechura, Peru

在沙漠里捕鱼和耕种？

• 批准号: AH/T004444/1
• 负责人: Nina Laurie
• 金额: $ 22.18万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT004444%2F1
• 关键词: Fishing; farming; desert; platform; understanding

Cyclical extreme rainfall events, such as those generated by the El Niño in South America, can cause devastation through flooding in low and middle income countries, particularly in Peru, a country that is intimately linked to climate phenomena associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. It was Peruvian fishermen who first identified El Niño in the late 19th Century off the north coast of Peru. However, very little attention has been given to the opportunities these events can create for food systems, especially in the context of climate change in arid settings. This is particularly important because these events have the capacity to increase the amount of available freshwater and produce fertile sediment that fill river and lake floodplains. Our project will undertake the first systematic, interdisciplinary research on desert-El Niño-food systems in the Sechura Desert, northern Peru. The outputs from our research will have a bearing on how future challenges and opportunities associated with climate change, in particular El Niño in northern Peru, are imagined in academia and policy. It focuses attention on the less researched positive possibilities that El Niño events can generate in some contexts, which in northern Peru has significant implications for marginal desert-living communities, e.g. fishers and farmers who have so far been invisible in the popular narrative of disaster mitigation surrounding a strong El Niño event. Specifically, we will (a) deconstruct the climate history of the Sechura desert by integrating monitoring and lake sediment records of climate change; (b) examine human responses to El Niño through colonial and republican archives and generate oral histories of previous El Niño events; (c) evaluate contemporary food system practices through a mixed-method approach that looks at impact of climate variability on fish ecology and participatory mapping of fishing/farming practice and resources/markets; (d) identify challenges and opportunities for desert-El Niño-food systems by mapping social and economic development in the Sechura desert and contextualising this with newspaper archive analysis leading to future scenario planning.

周期性极端降雨事件，例如南美洲厄尔尼诺现象产生的事件，可能会对低收入和中等收入国家造成洪水破坏，特别是在秘鲁，该国与厄尔尼诺南方涛动相关的气候现象密切相关。 19世纪末，秘鲁渔民在秘鲁北海岸首次发现了厄尔尼诺现象。然而，人们很少关注这些事件可以为粮食系统创造的机会，特别是在干旱地区气候变化的背景下。这一点尤其重要，因为这些事件有能力增加可用淡水量并产生肥沃的沉积物，填充河流和湖泊洪泛区。我们的项目将对秘鲁北部塞丘拉沙漠的沙漠厄尔尼诺食物系统进行首次系统的跨学科研究。我们的研究成果将影响学术界和政策界如何设想与气候变化（特别是秘鲁北部的厄尔尼诺现象）相关的未来挑战和机遇。它重点关注厄尔尼诺事件在某些情况下可能产生的研究较少的积极可能性，这在秘鲁北部对边缘沙漠生活社区具有重大影响，例如到目前为止，渔民和农民在围绕强烈厄尔尼诺事件的减灾流行叙述中一直被忽视。具体来说，我们将（a）通过整合气候变化的监测和湖泊沉积记录来解构塞丘拉沙漠的气候历史； (b) 通过殖民地和共和国档案研究人类对厄尔尼诺现象的反应，并生成以往厄尔尼诺事件的口述历史； (c) 通过混合方法评估当代粮食系统做法，着眼于气候变化对鱼类生态的影响以及对捕捞/农业做法和资源/市场的参与性绘图； (d) 通过绘制塞丘拉沙漠的社会和经济发展图，并将其与报纸档案分析结合起来，从而制定未来的情景规划，确定沙漠-厄尔尼诺-粮食系统的挑战和机遇。

项目成果

Creating stories of educational change in and for geography: what can we learn from Bolivia and Peru?

创造地理教育变革的故事：我们可以从玻利维亚和秘鲁学到什么？

• DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2023.2217629
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Geography
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Healy G

Translation urgency in our climate-challenged times: co-producing geographical knowledge on El Niño in Peru

气候挑战时代的翻译紧迫性：共同制作秘鲁厄尔尼诺现象的地理知识

• DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2289496
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Scottish Geographical Journal
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Laurie N

Education for disaster resilience: Lessons from El Niño

抗灾教育：厄尔尼诺现象的教训

• DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103919
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Geoforum
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Bell I