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From wild harvesting to agroforest cultivation: A Chamaedorea palm case study from Chiapas, Mexico Rico García-Amado, Luis Ruiz Pérez, Manuel Dahringer, Guillaume Reyes Escutia, Felipe Contreras Mejía, Elsa Barrasa García, Sara Non-timber forest products (NTFP) commercialisation usually modifies the livelihoods and economic strategies of forest people to make room for NTFP cultivation systems. This paper analyzes livelihood changes, new production techniques and future challenges of a case study in a South-eastern Mexican community where Chamaedorea palm cultivation is displacing wild harvesting. The results illustrate the fast adoption of palm plantations due to salient improvements in the economic return to effort. The change was led by richer households, although communal structures have allowed the middle income households to participate in the process. While palm producers do not tend to have beans and corn subsistence plots, landless poorer members have been left out of palm activities, basically remaining as subsistence farmers. 2024-01-25T22:41:52Z 2024-01-25T22:41:52Z 2024-01-25T22:41:52Z 2013 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95631 1389-9341 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.12.004 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//Proyectos de Cooperación Interuniversitaria (PCI) /D/021759/08 Rico García-Amado, Luis, Manuel Ruiz Pérez, Guillaume Dahringer, Felipe Reyes Escutia, Sara Barrasa García, y Elsa Contreras Mejía. «From Wild Harvesting to Agroforest Cultivation: A Chamaedorea Palm Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico». Forest Policy and Economics 28 (marzo de 2013): 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2012.12.004. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ restricted access Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Elsevier