Rosa on the edge – Mexico

Photographer’s comment: “Rosa’s land lays directly on the edge that joins the forests and agricultural lands, and she strives to make sure this boundary unites and does not split this two ecosystems and land uses. Using organic and traditional agricultural techniques, she has made outstanding gains in productivity in a long-abandoned patch of land. By monitoring forest responses and rationalizing extraction times and rates, by adapting silvicultural methods to small scale fire-wood and timber extraction, she has kept plagues and fires away from the patches of forest that surround her land. Landscape management, after all, doesn’t only happen at the landscape scale, but is reproduced to smaller and smaller levels.“