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Title of Journal: Hum Ecol
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Abbravation: Human Ecology
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Authors: Paul Rogé Marta Astier
Publish Date: 2015/09/14
Volume: 43, Issue: 5, Pages: 639-653
Abstract
The traditional management systems of the Mixteca Alta Region of Oaxaca Mexico offer historical lessons about resilience to changes and variability in climate We interviewed small farmers to inquire about the dynamics of abandonment and persistence of a traditional management system known as cajete maize The previous generation had sown cajete maize more extensively across the landscape but farmers increasingly relegated it to high elevation frost prone agricultural environments that were less suited for seasonal maize We interpret farmers’ narratives of changing cropping systems from a perspective of general agroecological resilience The most recent years presented increasingly extreme climatic and socioeconomic hardships increased temperatures delayed rainy seasons reduced capacity of soils to retain soil moisture changing cultural norms and reduced rural labor Transformative change is required to develop novel cropping systems and complementary activities to agriculture that will allow for farming to be sustained in the face of these challengesThis research was made possible thanks to Abelino Célis Anastasia Velasco López Eleazar García Jiménez Estela Rosendo Palacios Jesús León Santos and Misael Velasco Krista Isaacs Miguel A Altieri Liz Carlisle Shannon Cram Andrew R Friedman Margot Higgins Julie Klinger Jeffrey Martin Gustavo Oliveira Shoshana Perrey Nathan Sayre and Annie Shattuck provided useful feedback on versions of this manuscript This work was supported by the Garcia RoblesFulbright under the scholarship “Enhancing the resilience of rainfed agroecosystems to climatic variability in Oaxaca Mexico” UC MEXUS under the grants “Importance of social networks in resilience theory” and “Climate change research in Mexico”
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