La producción rural en México: alternativas ecológicas

Rapid economic and population growth during the last decade has led to a deterioration of Mexico's natural resources, which have played an important role in the country's ongoing development. This environmental assessment presents an overview of natural resource exploitation, its environmental impact, and alternative models of natural resource production and use. Chapter I provides general information on agriculture, ranching, and forestry, the three foci of the report. Chapter II discusses the environmental impacts of the above activities, focusing on deforestation, the hydrologic cycle, soil erosion, forest fires, and other related problems. Chapters III and IV present demographic information, specifically discussing the impact of population growth on resource use. Chapter V focuses on the various modes of rural production and Chapter VI on the country's differing ecological zones. Chapter VII examines the ecological efficiency of agriculture, ranching, and forestry, i.e., the amount of resource inputs required to produce a given unit of output. Chapter VIII presents an alternative strategy for natural resource production and recommends legal reforms, infrastructure improvement, administrative and financial reform, economic diversification, etc. Finally, Chapter IX presents nine action priorities: increased use of modern farming and livestock technologies, diversification of the ranching industry, increased mechanization of cereals and sugar production, decentralization of forestry, decreased wood consumption, regulation of the forest products industry, and a shift to alternative crops.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	124771 Toledo, V.M., 53925 Carabias, J., 20 Toledo, C., 72826 González Pacheco, C.
Format:	biblioteca
Published:	México, DF (México) Fundación Universo Veintiuno 1989
Subjects:	PRODUCCION AGRICOLA, PRODUCCION FORESTAL, DINAMICA DE LA POBLACION, IMPACTO AMBIENTAL, SISTEMAS DE EXPLOTACION, SISTEMAS DE CULTIVO, POLITICA DE PRODUCCION, MEDIO AMBIENTE, ZONIFICACION ECOLOGICA, LEÑA, POLITICA AMBIENTAL, AUTOSUFICIENCIA, AGRICULTURA ALTERNATIVA, PASTORALISMO, CRIANZA INTENSIVA, INDUSTRIA AZUCARERA, BARBECHO FORESTAL, PRODUCTOS FORESTALES NO MADERABLES, PLANTAS PERENNES,
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