Conflicting trajectories of landscape transformation in the humid tropical agricultural plantations of the Western Ghats, India

Sreeja, KG; Madhusoodhanan, C.G.; Eldho, T. I.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112632

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“…In parallel, human populations have grown around forests and forest protected areas, with an estimated 50 million people currently living in the Western Ghats (Kasturirangan et al, 2013 ). This has led to increased demand for housing, roads, agricultural commodities and paddy cultivation for subsistence, increased human–wildlife conflict and highly contested land and resources (Sreeja et al, 2021 ). More recent institutional drivers of land-use change include state-level incentives for smallholders to combine arecanut plantations with mixed crops and dairying within an integrated system.…”

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Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks

Vanwambeke,

Lambin,

Meyfroidt

et al. 2024

Journal of Land Use Science

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Land cover and land use have established effects on hazard and exposure to vector-borne diseases. While our understanding of the proximate and distant causes and consequences of land use decisions has evolved, the focus on the proximate effects of landscape on disease ecology remains dominant. We argue that land use governance, viewed through a land system lens, affects tick-borne disease risk. Governance affects land use trajectories and potentially shapes landscapes favourable to ticks or increases contact with ticks by structuring human-land interactions. We illustrate the role of land use legacies, trade-offs in land-use decisions, and social inequities in access to land resources, information and decision-making, with three cases: Kyasanur Forest disease in India, Lyme disease in the Outer Hebrides (Scotland), and tick acaricide resistance in cattle in Ecuador. Land use governance is key to managing the risk of tick-borne diseases, by affecting the hazard and exposure. We propose that land use governance should consider unintended consequences on infectious disease risk.

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Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks

Vanwambeke,

Lambin,

Meyfroidt

et al. 2024

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…Projected climate change, volatile market prices and other socio-political dynamics in the region make conservation objectives challenging (Robbins et al, 2015). High labour costs and unavailability of labour have also been among the biggest challenges for land owners and have resulted in increased chemical inputs, land use conversions and land abandonment (Robbins et al, 2021;Sreeja et al, 2021). Emphasizing ecosystem services along with conservation benefits can allow conservationists to frame the support for nature in utilitarian terms, allow land owners to market their commodities as biodiversity friendly and make it a mainstay of policy agenda for both human and environmental well-being (Gómez-Baggethun et al, 2010).…”

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Local and landscape characteristics shape amphibian communities across production landscapes in the Western Ghats

Sankararaman

Dalvi

Miller

et al. 2021

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1. Global tropical forests have been modified and fragmented by commodity agroforests, leading to significant alterations in ecological communities. Nevertheless, these production landscapes offer secondary habitats that support and sustain local biodiversity. In this study, we assess community level and species-specific responses of amphibians to land management in areca, coffee and rubber, three of the largest commodity agroforests in the Western Ghats.2. A total of 106 agroforests across a 30,000-km 2 landscape were surveyed for amphibians using a combination of visual and auditory encounter surveys. We used a Bayesian multi-species occupancy modelling framework to examine patterns of species richness, beta diversity, dominance structure and individual species occupancies. The influence of biogeographic variables such as elevation and latitude as well as microhabitat availability of streams, ponds and unpaved plantation roads was tested on amphibian species occupancy.3. Coffee agroforests had the highest species richness and lowest dominance when compared to areca and rubber. Beta diversity was highest in areca for within agroforest measures. Compared across agroforests, coffee had highest beta diversity with areca and rubber. Both elevation and latitude showed an overall positive association with amphibian occupancy, although species-specific responses varied considerably.4. Microhabitat availability was one of the strongest predictors of amphibian occupancy, with mean community response being positive with presence of water bodies and roads. Pond presence increased species richness per site by 34.7% (speciesspecific responses in occupancy ranged from -2.7% to 327%). Stream presence alone did not change species richness but species-specific response ranged from -59% to 273%. Presence of plantation roads also increased species richness by 21.5% (species-specific response ranged from -82% to 656%). Being unpaved withThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…Farming sector has evolved from a subsistence based labour intensive economy to a modernized, capital and knowledge intensive system. The transformation of traditional agricultural lands into plantation viz., coffee gardens, tea gardens, cardamom gardens (Sreeja et al, 2021), rice-shrimp or grass-cattle based integrated farming systems and a move from on-farm to more off-farm or nonfarm incomes (Thanh et al, 2021) has got tremendous ecological chaos and ripples.…”

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Farmers’ Perception towards Transformation of Rice-based Cropping System intoTea Garden

Haque

Acharya

Sarkar

2022

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Transformation of agricultural lands into non-farm lands or plantations has got tremendousecological chaos and ripples. Northern part of West Bengal is undergoing rapid changes inrural areas where new opportunities are emerging in the form of demand-driven and market-driven agriculture. Due to persistent low returns from traditional rice cultivation, thetransformation of paddy fields into tea gardens has been a recent trend for this part ofWest Bengal. The present study has been conducted by selecting purposively three blocksfrom Alipurduar district and sixty respondents through random sampling, those who havealready transformed their crop field into tea gardens from these blocks. The farmers’perception towards transformation is taken as dependent variable along with a score offourteen independent variables. The responses are collected through a structured interviewschedule. The study envisaged that the farmers’ education level, number of family membersengaged in the garden, their economic motivation, sources of information, risk orientationbehaviour and distance from the tea processing factory showed significant contributiontowards the transformation behaviour. The future impact of such transformation on theecological dynamics in terms of livelihood, biodiversity restoration and ecological resiliencecan be brought under policy frameworks.

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Conflicting trajectories of landscape transformation in the humid tropical agricultural plantations of the Western Ghats, India

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Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks

Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks

Local and landscape characteristics shape amphibian communities across production landscapes in the Western Ghats

Farmers’ Perception towards Transformation of Rice-based Cropping System intoTea Garden

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