Comparison of adaptative strategies to climate variability in ruraln areas of Argentine Chaco and US Southern Plains during the last century

摘要

Considering uncertainties regarding climate variability, the objective of this study was to make a long-term (1901-2011) comparative assessment of the impact of land-use decision (changes in the cultivated area) and technology adoption as adaptative mechanisms of the rural sector in the Argentine Chaco and the US Southern Plains. Different sources of data on climate (precipitation, minimum, mean and maximum temperature and evapotranspiration), land-use change (proportion of cultivated area) and