TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains
AU - Goldberg, Zachary A.
AU - Powell, Bronwen
AU - Ouarghidi, Abderrahim
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Department of Geography, Center for Landscape Dynamics, and the Africana Research Center at Pennsylvania State University.
Funding Information:
We thank the farmers who gave their time, knowledge, and hospitality; the High Atlas Foundation for supporting this work; Hassan Alkorsal for being a passionate research assistant; Karl Zimmerer for help with the design and conceptualization of this study; Cameron Franz and Lizhao Ge for assistance in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data; comments from Brian King, Ruchi Patel, Sara Cavallo, and Saumya Vaishnava, as well as anonymous reviewers; and Penn State?s Department of Geography, Center for Landscape Dynamics, and Africana Research Center for funding this research.
Funding Information:
We thank the farmers who gave their time, knowledge, and hospitality; the High Atlas Foundation for supporting this work; Hassan Alkorsal for being a passionate research assistant; Karl Zimmerer for help with the design and conceptualization of this study; Cameron Franz and Lizhao Ge for assistance in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data; comments from Brian King, Ruchi Patel, Sara Cavallo, and Saumya Vaishnava, as well as anonymous reviewers; and Penn State’s Department of Geography, Center for Landscape Dynamics, and Africana Research Center for funding this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Smallholder farmers are important managers of global crop diversity. However, agricultural modernization is changing farming practices and raising questions about the socio-ecological factors that support crop diversity. In the context of the semi-arid High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, we explored determinants of crop diversity through a cross-sectional survey and farmer interviews in villages adopting new crops such as apples. Through a multiple linear regression analysis and farmer interviews, we found that market participation, land holdings, and water access influenced crop diversity. We highlight the importance of water access for crop diversity, especially in semi-arid regions with uneven hydrological resources.
AB - Smallholder farmers are important managers of global crop diversity. However, agricultural modernization is changing farming practices and raising questions about the socio-ecological factors that support crop diversity. In the context of the semi-arid High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, we explored determinants of crop diversity through a cross-sectional survey and farmer interviews in villages adopting new crops such as apples. Through a multiple linear regression analysis and farmer interviews, we found that market participation, land holdings, and water access influenced crop diversity. We highlight the importance of water access for crop diversity, especially in semi-arid regions with uneven hydrological resources.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10745-021-00248-7
DO - 10.1007/s10745-021-00248-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114185593
VL - 49
SP - 453
EP - 465
JO - Human Ecology
JF - Human Ecology
SN - 0300-7839
IS - 4
ER -
