MILPA OR FOREST: DILEMMA IN MARGINALIZED LOCALITIES

Abstract

A study was carried out to contextualize the main socioeconomic characteristics in terms of population, growth projections, marginalization, surface sown with maize (Zea mays L.), bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), trees and coffee (Coffea arabica L.) for an Otomí-Tepehua region in the state of Hidalgo, México, considering the fact that forest extensions have reduced alarmingly, and that the dynamics indicated will affect during the next 30 years the region with wide extensions felled. An effect of this, for the population in the Center of the country, will be reduction in oxygen and water infiltration. The evidences presented
showed how the main economic activities of the population and the social changes impact and reduce the ecological systems in the region indicated