Agricultural livelihood transition in the southern Yucatán region: diverging paths and their accompanying land changes |
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Authors: | Claudia Radel Birgit Schmook Rinku Roy Chowdhury |
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Institution: | (1) Utah State University, 5215 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5215, USA;(2) El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Av. del Centenario Km 5.5, 77000 Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico;(3) Indiana University, Student Building 120, 701 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7100, USA |
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Abstract: | Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental
regimes and political economic/structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between increasingly globalized
rural livelihoods and in-place land change, assessing results from social surveys of smallholding households in the southern
Yucatán region. We examine evidence for a transition in agricultural livelihood strategies as smallholders adjust to changing
political economic and institutional conditions, and link these transitioning strategies to land use changes. Based on household
surveys in 1997 and 2003, we comparatively assess both changes in the selection of livelihood strategies and in the land use
and cover impacts of those strategies. Our results indicate that although impacts of given strategies have changed little
over this period, there are increasing proportions of households pursuing two divergent adjustment paths—one of agricultural
withdrawal and one of agricultural intensification and commercialization. We investigate what sociodemographic characteristics
differentiate the groups of households following distinct livelihood strategies. Our findings point to the possibility of
simultaneous and contradictory land change outcomes as smallholders adjust in different ways to their intensified incorporation
into global economies. |
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