Tropical mountains multifunctionality: Dendritic appropriation of rurality or rhyzomic community resilience as food secrity panacea

Abstract:

We use a dendrological metaphor to explain our ideas on how multifunctional agriculture, ecology and food security are interacting in the context of development and conservation with a view to reviving indigenous and traditional culture. In the paradigm shift from a top-down, dendritic approach to rural productivity to the new bottom-up, rhyzomic approach to optimize rural sustainability, there is an unfolding financial mechanism shown to be successful in mountain communities of the developed world. We argue that multifunctionality in tropical agriculture should be achieved by reviving ancient practices with traditional ecological knowledge and incorporating forward- thinking, innovative economic options of the digital age. The establishment of the fourth sector of the economy to benefit rural peoples is the secure way towards food security, agrobiodiversity conservation and sustainability in tropical farmscapes transformed by globalization. © 2013 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Año de publicación:

2013

Keywords:

• ECUADOR
• Ecological modernity
• Appropriation of rurality
• Environmental services
• Ethnotourism
• COSTA RICA
• Amenity migration

Fuente:

scopus