Marta Astier
Biographic Data
| ID | 195287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Astier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Astier |
| SIGNATURE | ASTIER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6620-2356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reframing native maize conservation, the energy-gender nexus, and food sovereignty in rural Mexico
The role of traditional Indigenous agriculture in preserving native maize in Mexico has been widely researched, as well as its cultural and environmental benefits. Nevertheless, the extensive and interdisciplinary literature on landrace maize production has paid less attention to the role of women’s knowledge in transforming maize into handmade tortillas, work that contributes directly to the conservation of maize agrobiodiversity, food culture, …
Cambio de Uso del Suelo e Implicaciones de la Expansión Agroindustrial Aguacatera en el Occidente de México
En el marco de la modernizacin e industrializacin rural y agrcola, el aguacate se ha convertido en un agronegocio destacado.Su expansin desencadena un cambio de uso del suelo (CUS) e importantes impactos socioambientales.Abordamos el caso de dos comunidades campesinas en Michoacn, Mxico occidental, con caractersticas ambientales anlogas.El objetivo fue analizar los cambios e impactos asociados al CUS por la expansin de dicha agroindustria entre 1…
Smallholder farmers’ diverse values in maize landrace conservation: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico
Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages
Handmade tortilla production in the basins of lakes Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén, Mexico
The Main Map presented in this paper is the result of intensive fieldwork and mapping of 43 rural communities of the Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén basins in central-western Mexico. It shows the presence of handmade-tortilla workshops and considers the natural resources they demand but also their social, economic and cultural significance in the region. An in-depth survey of 111 Hand Made Tortilla Workshops gave detailed information of tortilla productio…
Handmade Comal Tortillas in Michoacán: Traditional Practices along the Rural-Urban Gradient
Certain components of global food security continue to be threatened. Globalization has impacted food patterns, leading to greater homogenization of diets and the standardization of processes of food transformation, both in the countryside and in the cities. In Mexico, this has led to a drop in the use of native corn landraces and in the value associated with traditional practices around their growing and the processing and consumption of tortill…
Back to the roots: Understanding current agroecological movement, science, and practice in Mexico
In the middle of the last century, there were two types of agronomic scientists in Mexico. One group perceived traditional agriculture as backward and in need of modernization with advanced technologies. The other group, engaged in intensive fieldwork, studied and found inspiration in peasant and indigenous systems. This latter group of researchers who studied and described the biocultural richness of these systems provided the foundations for th…
Socio-economic and environmental changes related to maize richness in Mexico’s central highlands
Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico
González-Esquivel, C. E., M. E. Gavito, M. Astier, M. Cadena-Salgado, E. del-Val, L. Villamil-Echeverri, Y. Merlín-Uribe, and P. Balvanera. 2015. Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico. Ecology and Society 20(1): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06875-200138
Changes in Climate, Crops, and Tradition: Cajete Maize and the Rainfed Farming Systems of Oaxaca, Mexico
Silenced voices, vital arguments: Smallholder farmers in the Mexican GM maize controversy
Participatory identification and mapping of maize diversity in the Pátzcuaro-Zirahuén Basins, Michoacán, Mexico
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The map presented in this paper is a result of a participatory exercise in maize collection, classification and mapping with farmers from 19 rural communities of the Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén Basins of central western Mexico. It shows evidence of how specific bio-physical factors control maize diversity distribution in a patchwork-like pattern at a regional level, in a mixed ethnic …
Ten years of sustainability evaluation using the Mesmis framework: Lessons learned from its application in 28 Latin American case studies
This paper focuses on sustainability evaluation and, more specifically, it describes and analyses the Indicator-based Framework for Evaluation of Natural Resource Management Systems (MESMIS, its Spanish acronym), ten years after its development. This framework fulfilled a pioneering role by proposing an integrated interdisciplinary approach to assess sustainability of peasant NRMS. Results of a thorough analysis of 28 case studies are presented, …
Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages
Socio-economic and environmental changes related to maize richness in Mexico’s central highlands
Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico
González-Esquivel, C. E., M. E. Gavito, M. Astier, M. Cadena-Salgado, E. del-Val, L. Villamil-Echeverri, Y. Merlín-Uribe, and P. Balvanera. 2015. Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico. Ecology and Society 20(1): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06875-200138
Silenced voices, vital arguments: Smallholder farmers in the Mexican GM maize controversy
Ten years of sustainability evaluation using the Mesmis framework: Lessons learned from its application in 28 Latin American case studies
This paper focuses on sustainability evaluation and, more specifically, it describes and analyses the Indicator-based Framework for Evaluation of Natural Resource Management Systems (MESMIS, its Spanish acronym), ten years after its development. This framework fulfilled a pioneering role by proposing an integrated interdisciplinary approach to assess sustainability of peasant NRMS. Results of a thorough analysis of 28 case studies are presented, …
Participatory identification and mapping of maize diversity in the Pátzcuaro-Zirahuén Basins, Michoacán, Mexico
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The map presented in this paper is a result of a participatory exercise in maize collection, classification and mapping with farmers from 19 rural communities of the Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén Basins of central western Mexico. It shows evidence of how specific bio-physical factors control maize diversity distribution in a patchwork-like pattern at a regional level, in a mixed ethnic …
Silenced voices, vital arguments: Smallholder farmers in the Mexican GM maize controversy
Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico
González-Esquivel, C. E., M. E. Gavito, M. Astier, M. Cadena-Salgado, E. del-Val, L. Villamil-Echeverri, Y. Merlín-Uribe, and P. Balvanera. 2015. Ecosystem service trade-offs, perceived drivers, and sustainability in contrasting agroecosystems in central Mexico. Ecology and Society 20(1): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06875-200138
Changes in Climate, Crops, and Tradition: Cajete Maize and the Rainfed Farming Systems of Oaxaca, Mexico
Socio-economic and environmental changes related to maize richness in Mexico’s central highlands
Back to the roots: Understanding current agroecological movement, science, and practice in Mexico
In the middle of the last century, there were two types of agronomic scientists in Mexico. One group perceived traditional agriculture as backward and in need of modernization with advanced technologies. The other group, engaged in intensive fieldwork, studied and found inspiration in peasant and indigenous systems. This latter group of researchers who studied and described the biocultural richness of these systems provided the foundations for th…
Handmade tortilla production in the basins of lakes Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén, Mexico
The Main Map presented in this paper is the result of intensive fieldwork and mapping of 43 rural communities of the Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén basins in central-western Mexico. It shows the presence of handmade-tortilla workshops and considers the natural resources they demand but also their social, economic and cultural significance in the region. An in-depth survey of 111 Hand Made Tortilla Workshops gave detailed information of tortilla productio…
Handmade Comal Tortillas in Michoacán: Traditional Practices along the Rural-Urban Gradient
Certain components of global food security continue to be threatened. Globalization has impacted food patterns, leading to greater homogenization of diets and the standardization of processes of food transformation, both in the countryside and in the cities. In Mexico, this has led to a drop in the use of native corn landraces and in the value associated with traditional practices around their growing and the processing and consumption of tortill…
Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages
Smallholder farmers’ diverse values in maize landrace conservation: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico
Cambio de Uso del Suelo e Implicaciones de la Expansión Agroindustrial Aguacatera en el Occidente de México
En el marco de la modernizacin e industrializacin rural y agrcola, el aguacate se ha convertido en un agronegocio destacado.Su expansin desencadena un cambio de uso del suelo (CUS) e importantes impactos socioambientales.Abordamos el caso de dos comunidades campesinas en Michoacn, Mxico occidental, con caractersticas ambientales anlogas.El objetivo fue analizar los cambios e impactos asociados al CUS por la expansin de dicha agroindustria entre 1…
Reframing native maize conservation, the energy-gender nexus, and food sovereignty in rural Mexico
The role of traditional Indigenous agriculture in preserving native maize in Mexico has been widely researched, as well as its cultural and environmental benefits. Nevertheless, the extensive and interdisciplinary literature on landrace maize production has paid less attention to the role of women’s knowledge in transforming maize into handmade tortillas, work that contributes directly to the conservation of maize agrobiodiversity, food culture, …
Agriculture (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agroforestry (6 works) · Biology (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Business (4 works)