Summary
This work explores the complex socio-ecological tensions confronting smallholder pastoral farmers in Colombia's Boyacá páramo, examining how livelihood strategies interact with environmental pressures from agro-extractivism and livestock production. Using social-ecological frameworks, the authors analyse how campesino communities navigate conflicts between agricultural intensification and conservation imperatives in a high-altitude ecosystem. The research contributes to understanding sustainable rural futures in regions where smallholder pastoralism and resource extraction create competing demands on vulnerable mountain environments.
UK applicability
The findings have limited direct applicability to UK farming systems, which operate in fundamentally different bioclimatic and socioeconomic contexts. However, the social-ecological analysis of livelihood-environment tensions and smallholder decision-making under competing pressures may inform UK policy approaches to upland farming transitions and the integration of agricultural production with conservation objectives in designated landscapes.
Key measures
Qualitative analysis of livelihood-environment interactions; agro-extractivist pressures; pastoral land-use practices
Outcomes reported
The study examines how campesino farmers in the Boyacá páramo navigate tensions between livelihood strategies dependent on pastoral production and environmental pressures from agro-extractivism. It likely reports on the social-ecological conflicts and adaptive strategies employed by smallholders in high-altitude ecosystems where agricultural intensification and conservation objectives compete.
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