Coca and conservation: cultivation, eradication, and trafficking in the Amazon borderlands

Salisbury, David S.; Fagan, Chick

doi:10.1007/s10708-011-9430-x

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“…The staple crops are cassava, maize, plantain, rice, and beans. However, during the last decade, the region experienced an increase in palm oil and cacao plantations (Salisbury and Fagan, 2013). The mean annual rainfall in Ucayali ranges from 1,800 to 3,000 mm (Fujisaka et al, 2000), whereas the mean annual temperature is 25.7 • C with 80% of relative humidity (Lojka et al, 2008).…”

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Management and Motivations to Manage “Wild” Food Plants. A Case Study in a Mestizo Village in the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Cruz-García

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Human management of anthropogenic environments and species is tightly linked to the ecology and evolution of plants gathered by humans. This is certainly the case for wild food plants, which exist on a continuum of human management. Given alarming deforestation rates, wild food plant gathering is increasingly occurring in anthropogenic ecosystems, where farmers actively manage these species in order to ensure their availability and access. This study was conducted in a mestizo village in the Peruvian Amazon deforestation frontier, with the objective of documenting the management practices, including the human-induced movement of wild food plant species across the forest-agriculture landscape, and the motivations that farmers have to manage them using a qualitative ethnobotanical approach. The results of focus group discussions showed that 67% of the 30 "wild" food plant species reported for the village were managed, and almost all plants that were managed have been transplanted. The strongest flow of transplanted material was from forest to agricultural field (11 species), followed by market to field (five species), and field to home garden (four species). Farmers argued that the main reason for transplanting "wild" food plants was to have them closer to home, because they perceived that the abundance of 77% of these species decreased in the last years. Conversely, the most important reason for not transplanting a "wild" plant was the long time it takes to grow, stated for 67% of the species that have not been transplanted. Remarkably, more than half (57%) of the "wild" food plant species, including 76% of the species that are managed, have been classified as weeds by scientific literature. Finally, the "wild" food plant species were classified in six mutually exclusive groups according to management form and perceived abundance. The study concluded that "wild" food plant management, including management of species classified as weeds by scientific literature, is a crucial adaptation strategy of farmers aimed at ensuring their food security in scenarios of increasing deforestation. Finally, the article reflects on the major implications of human management on the ecology and evolution of food plant species.

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Management and Motivations to Manage “Wild” Food Plants. A Case Study in a Mestizo Village in the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Cruz-García

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…El actor "crimen organizado" ha cobrado importancia en México al crear mercados de cultivos ilícitos o ser intermediarios de productos agrícolas de exportación. Las empresas ilícitas funcionan según el marco dominante de eficiencia y generación de riqueza (Salisbury & Fagan, 2013), y promueven "fantasías de desarrollo" (Halvaksz, 2007). Se incluye en el esquema porque nuestro análisis coincide con estudios sobre reforma estatal que relacionan de manera sistémica el incremento del crimen organizado y del sistema penitenciario con la reingeniería del estado neoliberal, y están afectando amplias zonas rurales (Binford, 1999;Wacquant, 2010).…”

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Condicionantes regionales de la intervención socioeducativa: La soberanía alimentaria ante las reformas estatales

Ávila-Meléndez

Miramontes

Martínez

et al. 2017

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“…Por desgracia también el crimen organizado ha cobrado importancia en Michoacán a través de la generación de mercados negros de producción agrícola de cultivos ilícitos o como intermediarios de cultivos comerciales. Según estudios en comunidades indígenas de diversas partes del mundo, las empresas en las que el crimen organizado participa o interviene funcionan también bajo principios del marco dominante de eficiencia y producción de riqueza (Bradley y Millington, 2008;Salisbury y Fagan, 2013), y promueven imaginarios de «modernización» (Halvaksz, 2007). Dentro del municipio en cuestión, las comunidades recurrentemente se ven limitadas en el manejo de sus bosques por la presencia de talamontes que, según comuneros, estarían ligados al crimen organizado (Policiaca, 2011).…”

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Comunidades indígenas: Entre la adaptación a alteraciones climáticas locales y el abandono de la agricultura

Martínez¹,

Meléndez²,

García³

et al. 2015

AIBR

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Coca and conservation: cultivation, eradication, and trafficking in the Amazon borderlands

Cited by 58 publications

References 39 publications

Management and Motivations to Manage “Wild” Food Plants. A Case Study in a Mestizo Village in the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Management and Motivations to Manage “Wild” Food Plants. A Case Study in a Mestizo Village in the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Condicionantes regionales de la intervención socioeducativa: La soberanía alimentaria ante las reformas estatales

Comunidades indígenas: Entre la adaptación a alteraciones climáticas locales y el abandono de la agricultura

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