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Urban sustainable agriculture: The paradox of the chinampa system in Mexico City

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  • Pablo Torres-Lima
  • Beatriz Canabal-Cristiani
  • Gilberto Burela-Rueda

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Although the chinampa agriculture in Mexico City is considered an historical sustainable farming system,there have been few studies on its current status. This paper assesses the relationship between agroecological factors and socioeconomic strategies by analyzing urban forces, regional employment, and environmental concerns. Despite ecological deterioration caused by the urban expansion of Mexico City, the economic viability of this agricultural system is still based on the efficient use of farming technologies and resources management strategies that tend to maintain levels of productivity in horticulture and floriculture. The chinampa agriculture generates high income and employment for families and other local residents. This agroecosystem depends on the relationship between the economic priorities and agricultural criteria of farmers. We suggest that urban development, economic growth, and resource management in the chinampa region of Mexico City coincide with ecosystem processes, biological human needs, agronomic productivity, economic viability, and sociocultural values. By evaluating these factors, we provide some useful insights on the importance of this traditional agriculture within a sustainable development context. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

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  • Pablo Torres-Lima & Beatriz Canabal-Cristiani & Gilberto Burela-Rueda, 1994. "Urban sustainable agriculture: The paradox of the chinampa system in Mexico City," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 11(1), pages 37-46, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:11:y:1994:i:1:p:37-46
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01534447
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    1. Marion Comptour & Sophie Caillon & Leonor Rodrigues & Doyle McKey, 2018. "Wetland Raised-Field Agriculture and Its Contribution to Sustainability: Ethnoecology of a Present-Day African System and Questions about Pre-Columbian Systems in the American Tropics," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-23, August.
    2. Zornitsa Stoyanova, 2020. "Ecological Aspects of Urban Agriculture in the Context of Sustainability," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 3, pages 480-491, September.
    3. Maija Heimo & Alfred Siemens & Richard Hebda, 2004. "Prehispanic changes in wetland topography and their implications to past and future wetland agriculture at Laguna Mandinga, Veracruz, Mexico," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 21(4), pages 313-327, January.
    4. José De Anda & Harvey Shear, 2017. "Potential of Vertical Hydroponic Agriculture in Mexico," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-17, January.

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