Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Novotny, Ivan P.; Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H.; Tittonell, Pablo; López-Ridaura, Santiago; Rossing, W.A.H.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104912

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“…out-migration, market liberalization, global trade) and local (e.g. municipal regulations) drivers of change (Fabricius et al, 2007;Novotny et al, 2021;Speelman et al, 2014;Tittonell, 2014;Zimmerer, 2007). Households can react to these drivers by accumulation or selling assets, diversifying income, and changing cropping systems.…”

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Longitudinal analysis of household types and livelihood trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Novotny

Fuentes-Ponce

López-Ridaura

et al. 2021

Journal of Rural Studies

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Longitudinal analysis of household types and livelihood trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Novotny

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López-Ridaura

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Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Plans for the further development of the approach will include, for example, how to better address the territorial level. Some dimensions that are evaluated are also relevant at higher scales than the farm/ household level (e.g., Novotny et al, 2020). This is the case for example for nutrition, which is assessed in agricultural households only and not across the supply chains that structure food systems (Fanzo et al, 2020;Vonthron et al, 2020).…”

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Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

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Bicksler

Lucantoni

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous methods and data, differing scales and timeframes, and knowledge gaps. Facing these challenges, 70 representatives of agroecology-related organizations worldwide participated in the development of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), to produce and consolidate evidence on the multidimensional performances of agroecological systems. TAPE is composed of: Step 0, the preliminary step that includes a description of the main socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the agricultural and food systems and an analysis of the enabling environment in terms of relevant policy, market, technology, socio-cultural and/or historical drivers; Step 1, the Characterization of Agroecological Transitions (CAET), based on the 10 Elements of Agroecology adopted by FAO and its member countries, using descriptive scales to establish scores and assessing the degree of transition, with information from the farm/household and community/territory scale; Step 2, the Core Criteria of Performance listing the key dimensions considered relevant to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Environment & climate change; Health & nutrition; Society & culture; Economy and Governance. Finally Step 3, a participatory validation of the results obtained from the previous steps with the producers and relevant stakeholders. TAPE can be used (i) to assess the extent of agroecological transition among agricultural producers in a community or a territory, (ii) to monitor and evaluate projects by characterizing the initial and subsequent steps in an agroecological transition, and/or (iii) to evaluate widely diverse agricultural systems against agroecological elements and how they contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. Its application can support the transition of all forms of agricultural systems toward more sustainable practices and the formulation of adequate policies to enable this transformation. Preliminary results from pilot applications show that TAPE can perform in a variety of geographic regions and agroecosystems and that it allows assessment of performances of various criteria that move beyond classic indicators to begin to build a global evidence base for agroecology and support transformation to sustainable agricultural production and food systems.

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“…Site selection for people forest is based on suitable location for the tree planting in that area because the right site for tree planting is one of main factor for good greening with people forest based (Novotny et al 2021). New studies show that people are willing to pay for good greening (Sass, Lodder, and Lee 2019).…”

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The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment 2020: Official Conference Proceedings

2020

ACSEE Official Conference Proceedings

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The objectives of this project are to design and develop agricultural areas in accordance with the concept of participatory agriculture ecology to solve poverty and protect the environment by using the study of Landscape ecology and agriculture ecology concepts. In-depth interviews were used to explore the problems and impacts of agriculture affecting the economy Society and Environment of Wapi Pathum District Maha Sarakham Province. The key findings showed that the former agricultural area was all forest areas. The forest area was transformed into the agriculture area. This community has been doing agriculture for more than 50 years and the farmers have been using fertilizer and chemicals for a long time. This results in reduced agricultural production and environmental deterioration. Therefore, these solutions not only must add the concept of "New Theory Agriculture" to introduce to the farmers by focusing on growing a variety of plants for various uses, "Khok Nong Na Model" concept should be implemented to help enhance land and water management for agriculture activities throughout the year also. Moreover "Agroforestry" together with "Organic agriculture" will help rehabilitate the completely degraded forest area and the treatment of soil, water, and air with the ecological plants could potentially help reduce toxins in the environment also. Finally, the Principles of landscape agricultural guidelines will help to create beautiful agricultural areas, sustainable, suitable for learning resources and tourist attractions. Combining these concepts together contributes to a new type of agriculture to help and create a better quality environment.

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Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Longitudinal analysis of household types and livelihood trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Longitudinal analysis of household types and livelihood trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico

Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment 2020: Official Conference Proceedings

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