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Conservación de Biodiversidad en Paisajes Agrícolas: Retos y Oportunidades de Agrobosques de Café en los Ghats Occidentales, India
Author(s) -
GARCIA CLAUDE A.,
BHAGWAT SHONIL A.,
GHAZOUL JABOURY,
NATH CHERYL D.,
NANAYA KONERIRA M.,
KUSHALAPPA CHEPUDIRA G.,
RAGHURAMULU YENUGULA,
NASI ROBERT,
VAAST PHILIPPE
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
conservation biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.2
H-Index - 222
eISSN - 1523-1739
pISSN - 0888-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01386.x
Subject(s) - livelihood , biodiversity , biodiversity conservation , agriculture , geography , agroforestry , agricultural biodiversity , environmental planning , sustainable development , environmental resource management , business , natural resource economics , political science , ecology , economics , environmental science , archaeology , biology , law
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.