Abstract

MENDOZA-ROSAS, A. Rosa; SANTIAGO-CRUZ, María de Jesús  and  HERNANDEZ-JUAREZ, Martín. Factors that Influence the Temporary Transference of Lands in Aged Producers. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.3, pp.339-352. ISSN 1870-5472.

This document analyzes the factors that determine the transference of lands from aged producers to younger generations. The information is from interviews with producers who are older than 60 years in three municipalities of the region of Texcoco: Texcoco, Atenco and Tepetlaoxtoc in Estado de México, which were analyzed applying multivariate structural techniques such as correspondence analysis and conglomerate analysis. The results show two groups of producers that transfer lands: the first is made up of people older than 75 years of age, mostly women, who obtain 34 % of the total of their income from the temporary transference of their lands; the second is made up of producers between 60 and 74 years old, generally men, who attain only 7.3 % from the same concept and who generate an important part of their income from other economic activities. In a context in which the proportion of elderly population occupies a more important portion within society, and especially in rural localities where most of the producers from the agriculture and livestock sector inhabit, it is expected that the change in the population pyramid will affect the transference of lands and with that the production in the agricultural sector, and the administration of the resources involved.

Keywords : composition of income; ageing; land transference.

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