TY - JOUR
T1 - From Forests and Fields to Coffee and Back Again
T2 - Historic Transformations of a Traditional Coffee Agroecosystem in Oaxaca, Mexico
AU - Hite, Emily Benton
AU - Bray, David Barton
AU - Duran, Elvira
AU - Rincón-Gutiérrez, Armando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/5/4
Y1 - 2017/5/4
N2 - Studies of coffee agroecosystems have focused on their role in providing habitat for biodiversity across a range of management intensities. These studies have not taken into account the temporal and spatial transformations in coffee landscapes and their impacts on structural heterogeneity and biodiversity, nor systematically linked these transformations to farmer management responses to price and policy shocks. We utilize a coupled natural–human system framework to examine the historical transformations of the coffee landscape in a matrix of community-protected forests in a coffee-growing community in Oaxaca, Mexico, and study how those transformations impact tree biodiversity across a range of management options, including formerly certified organic and conventional coffee, abandonment, and conversion. The coffee landscape has historically transitioned from forests and fields (1950s–1960s) to one dominated by coffee (1970s–1980s) to a richly mosaic and biodiverse landscape (1990–2010) resulting from 43% recent abandonment and conversion of coffee back to forest and fields.
AB - Studies of coffee agroecosystems have focused on their role in providing habitat for biodiversity across a range of management intensities. These studies have not taken into account the temporal and spatial transformations in coffee landscapes and their impacts on structural heterogeneity and biodiversity, nor systematically linked these transformations to farmer management responses to price and policy shocks. We utilize a coupled natural–human system framework to examine the historical transformations of the coffee landscape in a matrix of community-protected forests in a coffee-growing community in Oaxaca, Mexico, and study how those transformations impact tree biodiversity across a range of management options, including formerly certified organic and conventional coffee, abandonment, and conversion. The coffee landscape has historically transitioned from forests and fields (1950s–1960s) to one dominated by coffee (1970s–1980s) to a richly mosaic and biodiverse landscape (1990–2010) resulting from 43% recent abandonment and conversion of coffee back to forest and fields.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - coffee agroecosystems
KW - coffee landscapes
KW - coupled natural-human systems
KW - indigenous conservation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994560110&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2016.1239291
DO - 10.1080/08941920.2016.1239291
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0894-1920
VL - 30
SP - 613
EP - 626
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
IS - 5
ER -