Cleary Katherine, Shaver Irene, Chain-Guadarrama Adina, Sanfiorenzo Andre, Santiago-García Ricardo, Finegan Bryan, Hormel Leontina, Sibelet Nicole, Vierling Lee A., Bosque-Pérez Nilsa A., DeClerck Fabrice, Fagan Matthew, Waits Lisette P..
2017. Coupled social and ecological systems in tropical agricultural regions: describing and quantifying linked outcomes of agricultural intensification.
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Résumé : Conversion of tropical ecosystems to agriculture over the past century has created patchwork landscapes of agriculture and remnant forest where stakeholders struggle to balance production and conservation. Recently, agricultural intensification in these landscapes has been replacing heterogeneous mixtures of smallholder crops with intensive, large-scale monoculture plantations of export crops such as oil palm, soybeans, and pineapple. We develop an interdisciplinary approach to examine the coupled social and ecological implications of this process in an agricultural landscape in Costa Rica, with broader application to regions experiencing similar patterns of intensification. We hypothesize that the spread of intensive monoculture pineapple plantations is driving demographic and economic change in local communities, affecting the structure and function of remnant forest, and contributing to the decoupling of social and ecological resilience. To test these hypotheses, we develop a conceptual model linking social and ecological systems, and identify qualitative and quantitative measures to characterize the strength and resilience of these links. We employ methods from political and landscape ecology to collect empirical field data for each measure, and integrate these data to: (1) describe social and economic implications of pineapple expansion, (2) quantify the spatial characteristics of pineapple cultivation, (3) assess the effects of pineapple expansion on biodiversity conservation. Findings are presented back to stakeholders in a series of workshops to strengthen the weak but critical feedback from ecological to social systems. This research answers the urgent call to develop interdisciplinary approaches to understand the complex patterns and processes that drive coupled social and ecological systems. (Texte intégral)
Mots-clés libres : Social-ecological systems, Agricultural intensification, Tropical agriculture, Conceptual model, Costa Rica
Classification Agris : A01 - Agriculture - Considérations générales
E50 - Sociologie rurale et sécurité sociale
E51 - Population rurale
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
F01 - Culture des plantes
Auteurs et affiliations
- Cleary Katherine, Clarkson University (USA)
- Shaver Irene
- Chain-Guadarrama Adina, CATIE (CRI)
- Sanfiorenzo Andre, Universidad de Puerto Rico (PRI)
- Santiago-García Ricardo, USFS (USA)
- Finegan Bryan, CATIE (CRI)
- Hormel Leontina, University of Idaho (USA)
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Sibelet Nicole, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (CRI)
ORCID: 0000-0002-2107-6376
- Vierling Lee A., University of Idaho (USA)
- Bosque-Pérez Nilsa A., University of Idaho (USA)
- DeClerck Fabrice, Bioversity International (FRA)
- Fagan Matthew, University of Maryland (USA)
- Waits Lisette P., University of Idaho (USA)
Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/584433/)
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