Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| DOI | 10.1186/s13002-023-00612-5 |
| Agri-silvicultures of Mexican Arid America | |
| del Carmen Andablo-Reyes, Araceli; Moreno-Calles, Ana Isabel; Cancio-Coyac, Beatriz Adriana; Gutierrez-Coatecatl, Ernesto; Rivero-Romero, Alexis Daniela; Hernandez-Cendejas, Gerardo; Casas, Alejandro | |
| 通讯作者 | Moreno-Calles, AI |
| 来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE
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| EISSN | 1746-4269 |
| 出版年 | 2023 |
| 卷号 | 19期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | BackgroundAgri-silvicultures (ASC) are biocultural practices procuring either the maintenance of wild diversity in predominantly agricultural spaces or introducing agrobiodiversity into forests. In the Mesoamerican region, ASC contribute to food sovereignty and territorial conservation and provide strategies for dealing with global changes. Previous inventories of ASC identified gaps in information about these systems in the Mexican Arid America region. This article raises the general question: How have human interactions between cultural, wild, and domesticated biodiversity in this territory? The particular questions in this paper are: (i) How have historical processes shaped human interactions between wild and domesticated biodiversity in the region? and (ii) What types of agri-silvicultures have emerged in Mexican Arid America since these relationships?MethodsWe trace a methodological border where archaeologists have identified the Mesoamerican region to define our study area as Arid America northern of this line in Mexico. We analyzed agriculturalization processes in Arid America through a historical review. Then, we carry out an inventory of Arid America ASC based on academic papers and other documented experiences. We constructed a spatial database and a typology to understand what kinds of agri-silviculture occur in the region.ResultsWe identified several pre-Hispanic agri-silvicultural practices in the region, like hunting, fishing, terraces, gathering, and irrigation systems. The cultivation of native species of maize, beans, and squash even was registered. The Spanish colonization forced the agriculturization in arid northern Mexico, where itinerant hunting-gathering patterns predominated. In the twentieth century, the Green Revolution adopted this area as the principal setting for industrialized agriculture. The industrialized irrigated systems expansion and other political strategies provoked the simplification of productive landscapes. The practices that integrate wild and agricultural diversity systems were marginalized and invisibilized in such a context. Our research group proposes seven types of agri-silvicultural systems (natives agrisilvicultures, the oases agroforestry, Mesquite and Huisache ASC, homegardens and other traditional forms of agroforestry or agri-silvicultures). These agri-silvicultures provide food, medicine, fodder, and other contributions, as income to the families that practice them and protect native and exotic species.Discussion and conclusionThe agriculturization of the arid environments initiated during Spanish colonization and the subsequent modernizing projects shaped dominant actors and ideologies in the arid north of Mexico. However, aridity has favored ancestral and agroecological relationships between cultures and biodiversity, emerging and subsisting Arid American agri-silvicultures. These agri-silvicultures deserve to be understood, adopted, and adapted to new contexts. They could be essential alternatives in the context of environmental changes. |
| 英文关键词 | Traditional agroforestry Traditional agriculture Nomadic cultures Arid and semiarid north of Mexico Biocultural diversity Wild and domesticated biodiversity Geohistory |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | Green Published, gold |
| 收录类别 | SCI-E |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001067080700001 |
| WOS类目 | Biodiversity Conservation ; Plant Sciences ; Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| WOS研究方向 | Biodiversity & Conservation ; Plant Sciences ; Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/397312 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | del Carmen Andablo-Reyes, Araceli,Moreno-Calles, Ana Isabel,Cancio-Coyac, Beatriz Adriana,et al. Agri-silvicultures of Mexican Arid America[J],2023,19(1). |
| APA | del Carmen Andablo-Reyes, Araceli.,Moreno-Calles, Ana Isabel.,Cancio-Coyac, Beatriz Adriana.,Gutierrez-Coatecatl, Ernesto.,Rivero-Romero, Alexis Daniela.,...&Casas, Alejandro.(2023).Agri-silvicultures of Mexican Arid America.JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE,19(1). |
| MLA | del Carmen Andablo-Reyes, Araceli,et al."Agri-silvicultures of Mexican Arid America".JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 19.1(2023). |
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