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Using the yield-SAFE model to assess the impacts of climate change on yield of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) under agroforestry and monoculture systems

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Ethiopia economy depends strongly on Coffea arabica production. Coffee, like many other crops, is sensitive to climate change and recent studies have suggested that future changes in climate will have a negative impact on its yield and quality. An urgent development and application of strategies against negative impacts of climate change on coffee production is important. Agroforestry-based system is one of the strategies that may ensure sustainable coffee production amidst likelihood future impacts of climate change. This system involves the combination of trees in buffer extremes thereby modifying microclimate conditions. This paper assessed coffee production under: (1) coffee monoculture and (2) coffee grown using agroforestry system, under: (a) current climate and (b) two different future climate change scenarios. The study focused on two representative coffee growing regions of Ethiopia under different soil, climate and elevation conditions. A process-based growth model (yield-SAFE) was used to simulate coffee production for a time horizon of 40 years. Climate change scenarios considered were: representative concentration pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. The results revealed that in monoculture systems, the current coffee yields are between 1200 and 1250 kg ha−1 year−1, with expected decrease between 4–38 and 20–60% in scenarios RCP 4.5 and 8.5, respectively. However, in agroforestry systems, the current yields are between 1600 and 2200 kg ha−1 year−1, the decrease was lower, ranging between 4–13 and 16–25% in RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios, respectively. From the results, it can be concluded that coffee production under agroforestry systems has a higher level of resilience when facing future climate change and reinforce the idea of using this type of management in the near future for adapting climate change negative impacts on coffee production.

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We gratefully acknowledged for the program of education, training, youth and sport of the European Commission for its financial support for the study of the first author in the Erasmus Mundus MEDOFR program. We also thank European Union FP7 Project AGFORWARD (Agroforestry that will advance rural development—contract nr 613520).

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  1. Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of Adigrat, P.O. Box 50, Adigrat, Ethiopia

    Tesfay Gidey

  2. RAIZ - Forest and Paper Research Institute, Herdade de Espirra, 2985-270, Pegões, Portugal

    Tânia Sofia Oliveira

  3. Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda s/n, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal

    Josep Crous-Duran & João H. N. Palma

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Gidey, T., Oliveira, T.S., Crous-Duran, J. et al. Using the yield-SAFE model to assess the impacts of climate change on yield of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) under agroforestry and monoculture systems. Agroforest Syst 94, 57–70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00369-5

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