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<p>We examine the socioecological dynamics of agrobiodiversity in a culturally important crop across historical cycles, focusing on agave management for <i>raicilla</i> production, an artisanal spirit from Jalisco, Mexico. Using qualitative methods along with a biocultural and historical perspective, we adapted the crop-boom framework to analyze how agave landrace diversity and management systems have evolved over the past century. We identify key drivers, cross-scale connections, and various outcomes. Our results show a historical boom in agave and <i>raicilla</i> production, followed by pest outbreaks, neglect, and reorganization—processes still reflected in current knowledge, attitudes, and practices, especially in tree-integrated agave agroforestry and landrace diversity. Like other agave spirits, <i>raicilla</i>’s history has been shaped by periodic ties to tequila and changing institutional and market conditions that impact agrobiodiversity. Environmental variability and unequal resource access also help explain the diverse local outcomes. Finally, we highlight historical landscape features that support local efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity and discuss broader factors and trends that are relevant to understanding crop dynamics in other bioculturally rooted systems.</p>

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Boom Cycles in Bioculturally Rooted Crops: Tradition and Change in Peasant Agave Management Systems

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    2026年4月18日

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  • José Antonio Sierra-Huelsz,
  • Dánae Cabrera-Toledo,
  • María Magdalena Padilla del Muro,
  • José de Jesús Hernández López,
  • Nerea Larranaga

摘要

We examine the socioecological dynamics of agrobiodiversity in a culturally important crop across historical cycles, focusing on agave management for raicilla production, an artisanal spirit from Jalisco, Mexico. Using qualitative methods along with a biocultural and historical perspective, we adapted the crop-boom framework to analyze how agave landrace diversity and management systems have evolved over the past century. We identify key drivers, cross-scale connections, and various outcomes. Our results show a historical boom in agave and raicilla production, followed by pest outbreaks, neglect, and reorganization—processes still reflected in current knowledge, attitudes, and practices, especially in tree-integrated agave agroforestry and landrace diversity. Like other agave spirits, raicilla’s history has been shaped by periodic ties to tequila and changing institutional and market conditions that impact agrobiodiversity. Environmental variability and unequal resource access also help explain the diverse local outcomes. Finally, we highlight historical landscape features that support local efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity and discuss broader factors and trends that are relevant to understanding crop dynamics in other bioculturally rooted systems.