Summary
This conference contribution examines the complex social-ecological tensions confronting campesino farmers and pastoralists in Colombia's Boyacá páramos, exploring how agro-extractivist pressures shape livelihood strategies and environmental outcomes in high-altitude Andean farming systems. The work integrates social, environmental and economic perspectives to understand sustainable pathways for rural futures, foregrounding farmer and herder agency whilst acknowledging structural constraints on land use and livelihoods. The analysis is situated within borderland contexts, suggesting attention to cross-border governance and transnational livelihood pressures.
UK applicability
Limited direct applicability to UK farming systems, as UK lowland agriculture differs substantially from high-altitude Andean páramo ecology and pastoral livelihoods. However, the paper's conceptual framework for understanding livelihood-environment tensions and farmer agency in policy contexts may inform UK debates on upland farming subsidies, land rights, and agricultural sustainability in marginal areas.
Key measures
As suggested by the title, likely qualitative assessment of livelihood-environment tensions, farmer agency, and structural constraints on land use; specific quantitative metrics not apparent from metadata
Outcomes reported
The paper examines how agro-extractivist pressures interact with livelihood strategies and environmental outcomes in high-altitude Andean farming systems. It explores the tensions between economic pressures on campesino farmers and pastoralists and ecological sustainability in the Boyacá páramos.
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