Mariel Støen will present some preliminary findings from the project "The effects of international migration on land use change in rural Guatemala and Mexico - Is there a forest transition?"
The links between international migration and the environment are complex and multiple.
Støen will discuss how migration and remittances are entangled in a process of transformation of a rural community in Guatemala. In this place, migration has driven a local process of land redistribution.
Migrant families have changed their main cash crops and are getting better prices for their coffee. New links with international organizations support the entry into new markets, labor relations have been re-shaped and the landscape is under constant transformation and re-negotiation.
The speaker
Mariel Støen is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM and affiliated with LEVE.
Her main research topics are within migration, land use change and environmental governance in Latin America.
About Lenge LEVE lunsj
"Lenge LEVE lunsj" is a seminar series by LEVE presenting ongoing research within LEVE's research area.
The seminars are held at Georg Sverdrups hus (University library) once a month (usually the last Friday) 12 - 1 pm.
Bring your lunch, we serve coffee and tea.
Next seminar
The next seminar will be held Friday November 25th, 12 - 1 pm. Speaker and title will be published soon.