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| Title: | Vulnerability of smallholder agriculture in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico |
| Authors: | Alayón-Gamboa, José A
Ku-Vera, Juan C |
| Keywords: | Commercial agriculture
Resilience
Slash and burn agriculture
Vulnerability |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A01 C 5/00 |
| Abstract: | The
susceptibility and capacity to recover after a time of stress was evaluated
with an ex-ante and ex-post hurricane (Isidore of September 2002) response by farming households in Calakmul, Mexico.
Interviews and plot measurements of maize and jalapeño pepper were applied for
two non-continuous agricultural cycles (1999-2000; 2002-2003) in four
households of subsistence oriented agriculture (HSA) and four households of
commercial agriculture (HCA). Quantified inputs were family labor in tilling,
weeding, harvesting, wage labor, and time to sow the plots. Output measurements
were grain and pepper production and sales of cash crops. While both
subsistence and commercially oriented households had similar investments and
crop production before the hurricane, vulnerability after the hurricane
differed between the two household strategies (HSA and HCA). HSA families’
resilient strategy consisted of both an investment of more household labor ex-post hurricane, and an early sowing
period for crop staples (maize and beans). As a result HSA families obtained
higher maize crop yields and similar economic profitability pre- and post-
hurricane as compared with HCA families. In contrast, HCA families delayed
planting maize in order to recover their economic investment, resulting in less
production for own consumption and therefore higher vulnerability. |
| Page(s): | 125-132 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(1) [January 2011]
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