Adaptation and biocultural conservation of traditional agroforestry systems in the Tehuacan Valley: access to resources and livelihoods strategies.

ABSTRACT: Traditional agroforestry systems (TAFS) are important areas for conserving biodiversity, ecosystems benefits and biocultural heritage, outstandingly local knowledge, management techniques, and domestication processes. These systems have adapted to environmental, social, technological, and cultural changes throughout history. However, contemporary drastic socio-environmental changes as climate variability, economic inequality, migration, among others, have caused a productive crisis, with several consequences as productive land abandonment, threaten the sustainability of TAFS and vulnerating livelihoods. In such context, the question arises of what kind of adaptations are needed to face these changes, and how access to water and land, should be managed to improve adaptation of TAFS? The stu

SUBMITTER: Vazquez-Delfin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9254342 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature