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Andrés María-Ramírez
The College of Tlaxcala A.C, MexicoTitle: Composition of the backyard in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Abstract
The land
adjacent to the rural home is known as the "backyard" and offers its
inhabitants a series of ecosystemic functions, ranging from the economic to the
social, biological and cultural. In the face of a series of multi-crises that
affect us (violence, poverty, environmental degradation, overpopulation,
climate change, etc.) and that threaten our survival on the planet, the
backyard, through its ecosystemic functions, can help generate alternatives for
rural inhabitants, especially in food production with little or no use of
agro-industrial inputs. In the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, the primary sector is
divided into 60 municipalities and two-thirds of its territory is devoted to
agricultural, livestock and forestry activities, and little research has been
done on this agroecosystem. The study aimed to make an approximation of its
composition in terms of plants and animals found in the backyard. From a
database of 53,968 households, 17,236 reported backyard activities. The
information was analyzed using descriptive statistics for both plant and animal
species. The composition of the main plant species produced in the backyard was
identified, as well as the animal species produced. On average, 91.2% of the
production is for own consumption; the average size of the backyard was 215 m2.
The results obtained may be of interest to the decision makers of the State
Government, in a territory characterized by the most degraded soils, low
fertility and poverty of the rural inhabitants, which forces them to polyactivity,
also contributing to alleviate the effects of the multicrisis mentioned above.
Biography
Andrés María-Ramírez received his PhD from
the Colegio de Postgraduados in the State of Mexico in Soil Fertility. He
worked 28 years as an agricultural researcher (Instituto Nacional ed
Investigaciones Agrícolas, Pecuarias y Forestales) and is currently a research
professor since 2013. He is part of the
National System of Researchers of CONAHCYT. He has published articles, book
chapters and books.
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