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DOI10.1080/1747423X.2019.1646332
Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach
Hruska, Tracy
通讯作者Hruska, Tracy
来源期刊JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
ISSN1747-423X
EISSN1747-4248
出版年2020
卷号15期号:2-3页码:270-289
英文摘要This study sought to understand why and how the area of irrigated agriculture in Janos County, in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, has tripled since 1987. Expansion of agricultural frontiers has often been attributed to state policies and programs or von Thunian land-rent dynamics. Here, a political ecology approach relying on qualitative interviews with landowners was used to understand the drivers and patterns of conversion from native rangeland to crops. Results show that socioeconomic patterns of agricultural frontier expansion evolved over time, with different drivers at different phases. State policies, especially the land reform, were initially important for settling the agriculture frontier in small farms. Subsequently, economic differentiation, intensification, and growth of existing farms drove expansion. Since 2010, expansion has been driven by investment-oriented land purchases by absentee owners and larger-than-family farms. The Janos case details what may be common but underappreciated temporal dynamics at agricultural frontiers.
英文关键词Resource frontier land use change ejido land reform Mennonite agrarian change
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号WOS:000477610200001
WOS关键词LAND-USE CHANGE ; COVER CHANGE ; PROPERTY-RIGHTS ; CHANGE SCIENCE ; DYNAMICS ; DEFORESTATION ; ACCUMULATION ; TRANSFORMATION ; FRAGMENTATION ; CONSERVATION
WOS类目Agriculture, Multidisciplinary ; Ecology
WOS研究方向Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构University of California, Berkeley
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/217210
作者单位Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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Hruska, Tracy. Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach[J]. University of California, Berkeley,2020,15(2-3):270-289.
APA Hruska, Tracy.(2020).Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach.JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE,15(2-3),270-289.
MLA Hruska, Tracy."Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach".JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE 15.2-3(2020):270-289.
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