What is it about?
Migrants to Calakmul, Campeche Mexico created two types of human–environment interactions depending on their cultural motivations to migrate: a diversified subsistence strategy and one that made agriculture their business. thosewho emphasize commercial agriculture have a better standard of living. Nevertheless, their improved on-farm livelihoods comes at the cost of higher risks to their adaptive system and adverse environmental consequences.
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Why is it important?
It understands agricultural choices as part of a household adaptive system. These systems will respond unpredictably to intended economic or agricultural development policies.
Perspectives
I would like authors to stop seeing household peasant agriculture as an economic endeavour and try to understand it as just one part of a complex and conservative adaptive strategy. A sustainable strategy that should be promoted.
Dr Francisco Delfin Gurri
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
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This page is a summary of: Smallholder land use in the southern Yucatan: how culture and history matter, Regional Environmental Change, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0114-8.
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