Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico

Worldwide the search is on for sustainable solutions to the competing needs for forest conservation and agricultural development. A strategy with contemporary salience arises in intensive, sedentarized agriculture that can protect forests and enhance livelihoods for forest dwellers. This paper inves...

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Main Author:	Eric Keys
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2010-09-01
Series:	Sustainability
Subjects:	sustainable agriculture Mexico tropical forests
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/9/3129/

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spelling	doaj-ebf405058c8b41fcaf2fbaf740737b492020-11-25T00:52:52ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502010-09-01293129314110.3390/su2093129Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern MexicoEric KeysWorldwide the search is on for sustainable solutions to the competing needs for forest conservation and agricultural development. A strategy with contemporary salience arises in intensive, sedentarized agriculture that can protect forests and enhance livelihoods for forest dwellers. This paper investigates why intensive agriculture does not limit deforestation in southeastern Mexico’s Calakmul Municipality. It argues that agriculture faces challenges from a range of biophysical and socioeconomic factors in tropical regions and that this encourages expanded land use for intensive farmers. http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/9/3129/sustainable agricultureMexicotropical forests
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title	Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico
title_short	Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico
title_full	Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico
title_fullStr	Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico
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issn	2071-1050
publishDate	2010-09-01
description	Worldwide the search is on for sustainable solutions to the competing needs for forest conservation and agricultural development. A strategy with contemporary salience arises in intensive, sedentarized agriculture that can protect forests and enhance livelihoods for forest dwellers. This paper investigates why intensive agriculture does not limit deforestation in southeastern Mexico’s Calakmul Municipality. It argues that agriculture faces challenges from a range of biophysical and socioeconomic factors in tropical regions and that this encourages expanded land use for intensive farmers.
topic	sustainable agriculture Mexico tropical forests
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Hurdles to Forest Friendly Farming: Sustainability Lessons from Southeastern Mexico

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