Globalization, Migration, and Latin American Ecosystems

By Aide Tm, Grau Hr. Science, 2004

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To balance the needs of a human population that should reach 9 billion by 2050 with the conservation of natural ecosystems, we need land-use and conservation policies that promote the most efficient use of the world9s resources. High-yield agriculture and rural-urban migration, two important characteristics of the globalization process, are making positive contributions toward this goal in Latin America, but their potential contribution for conservation efforts has received little attention. The authors of this Policy Forum suggest that important social and conservation gains can be made by focusing social programs on preparing rural migrants for an urban environment and promoting ecosystem recovery in the marginal agriculture and pasture lands that are being abandoned.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Shade Coffee: Update on a Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity (2014, background): “…has declined, such as Costa Rica and Ecuador, the expansion of high-yield agriculture has caused a decrease in coffee prices, which has, in turn, resulted in the abandonment of marginal agricultural lands (Aide and Grau 2004, FAO 2014) in combination with increased land prices due to urbanization.”
Designing and Implementing Effective REDD + Policies: A Forest Transition Approach (2013, background): “Aide and Grau (2004) found a general pattern of upland reforestation and lowland deforestation in Latin America, supporting the argument that topography plays an important role in this dynamic, with farmers abandoning more remote sloped lands and continuing to cultivate flatter lower elevation lands”
Balancing economic costs and ecological outcomes of passive and active restoration in agricultural landscapes: the case of Brazil (2016, background): “According to the forest transition theory, historical conversion of agricultural lands to forests has occurred as an indirect effect of socio-economic shifts, rather than human-intended interventions to support forest gain (Aide & Grau 2004).”
The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model (2010, unknown): “Based on this and other examples, some have proposed that the FT model could be a framework for understanding tropical landscape dynamics in general and even be used for promoting a conservation agenda (8, 9, 11).”
Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences (2007, background): “Based upon these results, we conclude that abandonment of agricultural land is a global phenomenon mostly driven by rural–urban migration in areas where new economic opportunities are offered to rural people [28], whereas ecological and mismanagement drivers are of secondary importance.”
Prospects for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Lessons from aging human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “The relentless growth and spatial dispersion of human activities will continue to alter tropical landscapes so that even vast tracts of remote old-growth forests are likely to be eventually converted into archipelagos of old-growth and regenerating forest patches (Aide and Grau, 2004; Wright and Mul”