Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico
ABSTRACT: Backyards are family settings adjacent to the house, characterized mainly by being small-scale and diversified productive spaces. The research typologically characterized the backyards and their contribution to family food security in La Concordia municipality, Chiapas, Mexico. The researc...
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| author | Francisco Guevara-Hernández Manuel Alejandro La O-Arias Emilio Herasto Aguilar-Vázquez Esaú Ruiz-Sánchez Franklin Martínez-Aguilar Carlos Ernesto Aguilar-Jiménez |
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| description | ABSTRACT: Backyards are family settings adjacent to the house, characterized mainly by being small-scale and diversified productive spaces. The research typologically characterized the backyards and their contribution to family food security in La Concordia municipality, Chiapas, Mexico. The research was descriptive and mixed, quantitative, and qualitative, and semi-structured interviews were applied to 130 families. For the typification, 21 variables were used, and the statistical techniques of Factorial Analysis and Clusters were applied. The cases studied were classified, according to the relevance of their production and contribution to food security, into two general groups: a) a group of backyards that is more productive and contributes to food security, which in turn includes three subtypes of backyards that differ from each other by their profile towards vegetable or poultry production for subsistence, and/or pigs as a form of savings; b) a group of less productive backyards in which other management strategies for food security are assumed and differ from each other by the level of expulsion of labor force and types of families, nuclear or extended. Poultry and plant species for multiple uses was the most frequently characteristic, regardless of the type of backyard. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c9bfeaef93d4766bd3266f789de91e42023-01-17T07:31:36ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa MariaCiência Rural1678-45962023-01-0153810.1590/0103-8478cr20220397Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in MexicoFrancisco Guevara-Hernándezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1444-6324Manuel Alejandro La O-Ariashttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-2063Emilio Herasto Aguilar-Vázquezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0361-306XEsaú Ruiz-Sánchezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0245-3305Franklin Martínez-Aguilarhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2666-5863Carlos Ernesto Aguilar-Jiménezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-1771ABSTRACT: Backyards are family settings adjacent to the house, characterized mainly by being small-scale and diversified productive spaces. The research typologically characterized the backyards and their contribution to family food security in La Concordia municipality, Chiapas, Mexico. The research was descriptive and mixed, quantitative, and qualitative, and semi-structured interviews were applied to 130 families. For the typification, 21 variables were used, and the statistical techniques of Factorial Analysis and Clusters were applied. The cases studied were classified, according to the relevance of their production and contribution to food security, into two general groups: a) a group of backyards that is more productive and contributes to food security, which in turn includes three subtypes of backyards that differ from each other by their profile towards vegetable or poultry production for subsistence, and/or pigs as a form of savings; b) a group of less productive backyards in which other management strategies for food security are assumed and differ from each other by the level of expulsion of labor force and types of families, nuclear or extended. Poultry and plant species for multiple uses was the most frequently characteristic, regardless of the type of backyard.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782023000800801&tlng=entypologydiversityfamiliesfood production |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Guevara-Hernández Manuel Alejandro La O-Arias Emilio Herasto Aguilar-Vázquez Esaú Ruiz-Sánchez Franklin Martínez-Aguilar Carlos Ernesto Aguilar-Jiménez Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico Ciência Rural typology diversity families food production |
| title | Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico |
| title_full | Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico |
| title_short | Backyards: typology and contribution to food security in Mexico |
| title_sort | backyards typology and contribution to food security in mexico |
| topic | typology diversity families food production |
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