While conflict-related dynamics are recognized as causes of land grabbing in Colombia, violent processes of exclusion and expropriation behind ‘greener’ projects are often seen as disconnected from them. The case of ecotourism in Tayrona National Natural Park makes it possible to explore the…
This paper analyzes the intersection of two parallel developments that have had a curious impact on agrarian politics in Colombia: on the one hand, attempts to appropriate land for ‘green’ ends such as biofuel production, which have become ubiquitous all across Latin America, and on the other,…
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) has been widely promoted as an effective and efficient model for conservation; however, few studies have empirically examined how the market-based approach interacts with farmer's decision-making processes and their abilities to sustain new conservation…
Livestock production in Latin America has replaced tropical dry forests with conventional monocultures pastures (CP) that have degraded soils. As an alternative to CP, intensive silvopastoral systems (ISS) have been developed with multi-canopied vegetation that mimics native forest (F). The…
Ecosystem services science has developed at a fast rate in Latin America, a region characterized by a high biological and cultural diversity, strong emphasis in foreign investment, and high socioeconomic inequities. Here we conducted the following analyses at the regional and national scales: (1…
El trabajo muestra el problema de la reconfiguración territorial en el Magdalena Medio a partir de la expansión de los cultivos agroindustriales de la palma africana en un contexto de conflicto armado y en el marco de las relaciones Norte-Sur.
La literatura económica que estudia la violencia ha analizado la forma en que un menor desarrollo de los derechos de propiedad puede generar las condiciones para que surjan procesos violentos. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios que analizan la manera como la violencia, en el largo plazo,…
El conflicto colombiano ha tenido una innumerable cadena de consecuencias sobre la vida de la sociedad, sin embargo el abordaje y análisis se ha dado con mayor fuerza desde la realidad urbana. No así desde el campo mismo, que entraña la matriz del mismo y por ende los impactos mayores,…
The cultivation of soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merril), in oxisols of the Colombian Orinoco has restrictions
due to high aluminum saturation and generally low CEC and OM, which affect the biological fixation of N and the normal growth of plants. In response to this problem, the plants are…