To Take Care of the Land Means Taking Care of Ourselves”: Local Perceptions on Human and Environmental Health in a High Agro-Biodiversity Landscape in the Yucatan Peninsula
The Forest and Milpa Landscape (FML) is a territory comprising 64 municipalities in the Yucatan Peninsula where the rainforest and the milpa system coexist. The ecosystems that predominate in the FML are sub-deciduous and subtropical evergreen forests, which represent an essential carbon reservoi...
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Springer Nature
2024
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| Online Access: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-9893-4_5#editor-information http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12324/39920 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9893-4_5 |
| Summary: | The Forest and Milpa Landscape (FML) is a territory comprising
64 municipalities in the Yucatan Peninsula where the rainforest and the milpa system
coexist. The ecosystems that predominate in the FML are sub-deciduous and
subtropical evergreen forests, which represent an essential carbon reservoir worldwide.
The use of natural resources for food security of FML families is associated
with the milpa, which is a system that depends on the rainfall and the soil’s ability to
retain water. Within the framework of the 2020–2030 Country Strategy of the GEF |
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