A5028065218- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Plant and soil sciences
- Latin American rural development
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest ecology and management
- Coffee research and impacts
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Social Sciences and Policies
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
2014-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2012
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2003
The major challenge in tropical land management is to meet the ever-growing demand for agricultural products while conserving biodiversity, providing critical ecosystem services, and maintaining rural livelihoods. This particularly acute Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, a region of high conservation value both wild domesticated species that undergoing rapid human population growth, ecological degradation, loss traditional farming systems (Myers et al. 2000; Harvey 2005a). Approximately 80%...
ABSTRACT To truly understand the current status of tropical diversity and to forecast future trends, we need increase emphasis on study biodiversity in rural landscapes that are actively managed or modified by people. We present an integrated landscape approach promote research human‐modified includes effects structure dynamics conservation biodiversity, provision ecosystem services, sustainability livelihoods. propose priorities encompassing three major areas: human–environment...
Strong feedback between global biodiversity loss and persistent, extreme rural poverty are major challenges in the face of concurrent food, energy, environmental crises. This paper examines role industrial agricultural intensification market integration as exogenous socio-ecological drivers traps Latin America. We then analyze potential a food sovereignty framework, based on protecting viability diverse agroecological matrix while supporting livelihoods production. review several successful...
Agroecology needs to increasingly integrate feminist contributions understand and transform power relations in food systems. This study is based on the participation analysis of meetings led by women from different territories Latin America Caribbean, 2018 Chiapas (Mexico), which they addressed problems alternatives related agriculture. Our identifies matrix oppressions: heteropatriarchy, capitalism colonialism, current corporate industrial system. We sustain that it necessary continue...
ABSTRACT Frugivorous are one of the main diaspore dispersers in tropical ecosystems, particularly open areas and sites early stages ecological succession. bat species respond differentially to habitat modification, context their dispersal functions it is important understand species' requirements. We compared diversity diaspores, obtained from fecal samples fruits carried by frugivorous bats, among five shaded coffee plantations under different management regimes a montane rain forest...
A network of agronomists, researchers, and practitioners associated with cacao farming provided open access to their independent field trials across Latin America the Caribbean (LAC). centralized dataset was assembled using qualitative quantitative data from 25 experimental (hereafter referred as “CacaoFIT”) spanning several LAC agroecosystems. This used document main traits agroclimatic attributes cultivation model being tested within CacaoFIT network. By synthesizing an entire trials, this...
Abstract Plantations are frequently established on abandoned pasture lands to speed forest recovery. This strategy requires matching a tree species mix with the prevailing microenvironmental conditions. In four degraded pastures of Mexican Lacandon rainforest, we planted 2,400 trees 6 ( Guazuma ulmifolia , Inga vera Ochroma pyramidale Trichospermum mexicanum Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin ) (1) test survival, initial growth, establishment costs; (2) evaluate whether vegetative cuttings...
Traditional agroforestry systems are widely recognized for their contributions to provisioning, support, regulation, and cultural services. However, because of the advancement industrial agriculture a corporative food system, peasants' rapidly undergoing transformation. We identify four types (AFS)—shade cocoa agroforest, shade coffee milpas homegardens—to provisioning in peasant families discuss conflicts between traditional contemporary model production consumption confronted by peasants...
Agroforestry systems contribute to the maintenance of ecosystem functions, especially agrisilvicultural such as shade coffee systems. However, role organic crops store carbon has been scarcely investigated. This study aimed quantify stocks in polyculture plantations, non-organic and Inga spp.-shaded northern Chiapas, Mexico. Vegetation inventories were carried out 1,000 100 m2 circular plots from six agroforestry communities. Carbon estimated living biomass roots through allometric formulas;...