ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to highlight how the complexity of the local-global interactions could permeate the practices of climate change adaptation in contexts where previous mitigation pathways have been at the centre of conservation strategies. For some time, local communities on both sides of the border have been drawing the attention of international cooperation agencies and international environmental non-governmental organisations to the urgency of adapting to climate change and the future risks associated with global warming. Economic and political factors underlying environmental degradation are not considered. In the Tacana Volcano Biosphere Reserve, coffee production under shade and forest conservation become entangled in the context of unstable precipitation patterns and unusual coffee leaf rust outbreaks. Mame indigenous peoples from the borderlands of Tacana first, and indigenous groups from the Highlands of Chiapas later, became the workforce for the coffee plantations throughout much of the twentieth century in hard conditions of exploitation.
