Sistemas agroforestales como estrategia de adaptación a eventos climáticos extremos = Agroforestry systems as a strategy for adapting to extreme weather events

Abstract

Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) is one of the main income crops in the Northeast in Argentina. The IPCC's neutral observations provide a valuable counterbalance in climate change debates and their implications. There is a growing interest in agroforestry systems as a way to practice agriculture while maintaining soil capacity, preventing its destruction, and controlling erosion. Comparative productivity studies conducted over multiple cycles and management systems, including monoculture of Ilex paraguariensis (yerba mate) and mixed cultivation of yerba mate with different tree species, have demonstrated that while there is variability between different harvest years, there is no loss of green leaf yield in tree-based yerba mate systems, despite interannual variation linked to climate fluctuations, notably precipitation.