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- Title
El contexto de vulnerabilidad de familias productoras de hule (heveacultoras): estudios de caso en el municipio de Huimanguillo, Tabasco.
- Authors
Aguilar Román, Janeth; Galmiche Tejeda, Ángel; Domínguez Domínguez, Marivel
- Abstract
The approach of sustainable livelihoods permits the understanding of the context of vulnerability; livelihood, strategies implemented and provide a framework for understanding the causes and dimensions of poverty without focusing only on a few factors. Three case studies, analysing the vulnerability context, the livelihoods and the strategies implemented of families dedicated to rubber farming in three different stages of cultivation (planting adult, youth and development path.) from the towns of Francisco Martinez Gaytán, Laguna del Rosario and Ejido El Guanal, municipality of Huimanguillo, Tabasco are presented. Data were collected through participatory workshops, participant observation and semistructured interviews. Results indicate that the degree of vulnerability depends on the interaction and recurrence of different factors, such as lower financial resources, poor management of rubber plantations, poor workforce due to illness or death, production cycles characterized by the presence of longer dry seasons and abundant rainfall that increase the risk of diseases in crops and livestock. All these factors affect negatively the natural, physical and financial capital, available for the families.
- Subjects
HUIMANGUILLO (Mexico); TABASCO (Mexico : State); MEXICO; RUBBER industry workers; EMPLOYEES; RUBBER plantations; POVERTY research; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Estudios Sociales: Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 39, p207
- ISSN
0188-4557
- Publication type
Case Study