Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: Challenges and opportunities of coffee agroforests in the Western Ghats, India

Autor: Philippe Vaast, Konerira M. Nanaya, Cheryl D. Nath, Claude Garcia, Jaboury Ghazoul, Robert Nasi, Yenugula Raghuramulu, Shonil A. Bhagwat, Cheppudira G. Kushalappa
Přispěvatelé: Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux : l'enjeu du changement global (UPR BSEF), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD GBR, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ITES), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Ponnampet College of Forestry, University of Horticultural and Agricultural Sciences, Central Coffee Research Institute, Partenaires INRAE, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), Fonctionnement et pilotage des écosystèmes de plantations (UPR Ecosystèmes de plantations), Département Performances des systèmes de production et de transformation tropicaux (Cirad-PERSYST)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecology (disciplines)
F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
Biodiversity
India
Coffea
Agroforesterie
Biodiversity conservation
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Trees
12. Responsible consumption
Environmental protection
Agricultural land
11. Sustainability
Environmental planning
Ecosystem
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
2. Zero hunger
Ecology
business.industry
Agriculture
Forestry
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
Livelihood
Western Ghats
K10 - Production forestière
Geography
13. Climate action
Sustainability
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
business
Agricultural landscapes
Coffee Agroforests
Zdroj: Conservation Biology
Conservation Biology, Wiley, 2010, 24 (2), pp.479-488. ⟨10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01386.x⟩
ISSN: 0888-8892
1523-1739
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01386.x⟩
Popis: International audience; The new approaches advocated by the conservation community to integrate conservation and livelihood development now explicitly address landscape mosaics composed of agricultural and forested land rather than only protected areas and largely intact forests. We refer specifically to a call by Harvey et al. (2008) to develop a new approach based on six strategies to integrate biodiversity conservation with sustainable livelihoods in Mesoamerican landscape mosaics. We examined the applicability of this proposal to the coffee agroforests of the Western Ghats, India. Of the six strategies, only one directly addresses livelihood conditions. Their approach has a clear emphasis on conservation and, as currently formulated risks repeating the failures of past integrated conservation and development projects. It fails to place the aspirations of farmers at the core of the agenda. Thus, although we acknowledge and share the broad vision and many of the ideas proposed by this approach, we urge more balanced priority setting by emphasizing people as much as biodiversity through a careful consideration of local livelihood needs and aspirations.
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