Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability
In the rush toward securing food supplies and saving nature, agroecosystems such as smallholder farming landscapes in the tropics appear at times to be a missed opportunity.1 Efforts tend to focus instead on two distinct pathways in separate portions of the landscape: efficient agriculture in larger scale farmlands and wild nature for conservation. The mixed tropical landscapes managed by smallholder farmers tend to be seen as neither very productive, nor good for nature. For conservationists in particular, a key obstacle is that these agroecosystems host many introduced or invasive species, instead of just native or endangered species. In this article, we argue that the arrival of alien plants in these ever-changing "melting-pot" landscapes can contribute to people's adaptation to social and environmental changes, to a diversification of livelihoods and habitats, to avoided deforestation, to biodiversity conservation, and finally to sustainability. Based on a three-part analytical framework applied to several case studies, we argue that more resources should be dedicated toward understanding, protecting, and enhancing tropical smallholder farming systems, and that introduced plants should not be an obstacle to this.
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dig-cirad-fr-5678972024-01-28T21:15:06Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567897/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567897/ Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability. Kull Christian A., Carrière Stéphanie M., Moreau Sophie, Rakoto Ramiarantsoa Hervé, Blanc-Pamard Chantal, Tassin Jacques. 2013. Environment, 55 (2) : 6-16.https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2013.765307 <https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2013.765307> Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability Kull, Christian A. Carrière, Stéphanie M. Moreau, Sophie Rakoto Ramiarantsoa, Hervé Blanc-Pamard, Chantal Tassin, Jacques eng 2013 Environment F01 - Culture des plantes P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières paysage zone tropicale petite exploitation agricole biodiversité durabilité http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4185 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7979 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33949 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33560 In the rush toward securing food supplies and saving nature, agroecosystems such as smallholder farming landscapes in the tropics appear at times to be a missed opportunity.1 Efforts tend to focus instead on two distinct pathways in separate portions of the landscape: efficient agriculture in larger scale farmlands and wild nature for conservation. The mixed tropical landscapes managed by smallholder farmers tend to be seen as neither very productive, nor good for nature. For conservationists in particular, a key obstacle is that these agroecosystems host many introduced or invasive species, instead of just native or endangered species. In this article, we argue that the arrival of alien plants in these ever-changing "melting-pot" landscapes can contribute to people's adaptation to social and environmental changes, to a diversification of livelihoods and habitats, to avoided deforestation, to biodiversity conservation, and finally to sustainability. Based on a three-part analytical framework applied to several case studies, we argue that more resources should be dedicated toward understanding, protecting, and enhancing tropical smallholder farming systems, and that introduced plants should not be an obstacle to this. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567897/1/document_567897.pdf application/pdf Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2013.765307 10.1080/00139157.2013.765307 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/00139157.2013.765307 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2013.765307 |
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In the rush toward securing food supplies and saving nature, agroecosystems such as smallholder farming landscapes in the tropics appear at times to be a missed opportunity.1 Efforts tend to focus instead on two distinct pathways in separate portions of the landscape: efficient agriculture in larger scale farmlands and wild nature for conservation. The mixed tropical landscapes managed by smallholder farmers tend to be seen as neither very productive, nor good for nature. For conservationists in particular, a key obstacle is that these agroecosystems host many introduced or invasive species, instead of just native or endangered species. In this article, we argue that the arrival of alien plants in these ever-changing "melting-pot" landscapes can contribute to people's adaptation to social and environmental changes, to a diversification of livelihoods and habitats, to avoided deforestation, to biodiversity conservation, and finally to sustainability. Based on a three-part analytical framework applied to several case studies, we argue that more resources should be dedicated toward understanding, protecting, and enhancing tropical smallholder farming systems, and that introduced plants should not be an obstacle to this. |
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Kull, Christian A. Carrière, Stéphanie M. Moreau, Sophie Rakoto Ramiarantsoa, Hervé Blanc-Pamard, Chantal Tassin, Jacques |
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Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability |
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Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability |
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Melting pots of biodiversity: Tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability |
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