Variabilidad climática vs cambio climático, conceptos y realidades en la zona cafetera colombiana

Juan Carlos García-López

doi:10.38141/10795/71102

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Climate variability vs climate change, concepts and realities in the Colombian coffee zone Variabilidad climática vs cambio climático, conceptos y realidades en la zona cafetera colombiana

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García-López, J. C. (2020). Climate variability vs climate change, concepts and realities in the Colombian coffee zone. Proceedings of Cenicafe´s Scientific Seminar, 71(1), e71102. https://doi.org/10.38141/10795/71102

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Published: December 1, 2020

https://doi.org/10.38141/10795/71102

Keywords

Variación del clima

zona cafetera

impacto

historia

Variação do clima

zona cafeeira

impacto

clima

história

Colômbia

Climate variation

coffee zone

impact

history

Colombia

Numero

Vol. 71 (2020)

Sectión

Agroclimatology

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Juan Carlos García-López

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4861-9649

Summary

Although the title of the seminar is related to the environment of the coffee zone, the history at the European level, the manner to understand the impact of climate on human activities regarding agricultural production, and its relationship with the demographic effect will be reviewed during the presentation. It is important to point out that the alternation of extreme events within the seasons of one year or between years have been particularly reviewed and have contributed to understanding the role of climate. Some of the expressions used to describe critical periods of history such as: “climatic famine”, “witches were often accused of decomposing time”, “calorific and dysenteric summers”, “after such a long drought, everything was fuel, even stones!“, ”prisons full of insolvent farmers“, ”prisons full of ‘volunteer’ criminals who ‘expected to be fed’”, “veil of opacity against solar radiation (related to volcanic episodes)”, give us an idea of the importance of climate in history and its current validity (Le Roy, 2017). Good weather has always been an ally of the great political leaders, as Baron Luis said: “Give me beautiful harvests, I will make good politics for you.” For the Colombian case, the systematic way of recording data was institutionalized through decree 817 of 1881 of data collection by the Service of Agriculture and Commerce and only materialized from 1935 by the Military Geographical Institute (later Agustín Codazzi). Earlier, some records taken by those interested in meteorology did not have continuity, therefore, different equipment and scales were used (Mora, 2019). In the case of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, the launch of the coffee meteorological observatory in 1949 has made climate behavior and its relationship with crops and their environment possible to understand. In the perspective presented here regarding the evolution of climate information management, based on Drs. Hans Trojer and Álvaro Jaramillo, it will be possible to elucidate the manifestations of climate variability and climate change and the ways we can, through their study, define current and future actions that reduce its exacerbation.

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Juan Carlos García-López, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café

Investigador Científico II, Cenicafé

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