TY - ECHAP
KW - deforestation
KW - Peru
KW - local knowledge
KW - Native Americans
KW - American Indians
KW - nutrition
KW - rainforests
KW - South America
KW - Kayapo
KW - tropical forests
KW - pasture
KW - Yurimaguas
KW - soil degradation
AU - Susanna B. Hecht
AU - John O. Browder
AB - This paper focuses on two main issues. First, it discusses the indigenous versus modernization approaches to soil resource management in Amazonian research and development strategies. The production systems of the Kayapó Indians of southern Para state are compared with those that inform current regional agricultural programs. While indigenous systems are complex, the principles that underlie them are not. Native land management models could be adapted by development planning agencies in a fuller way. Second, the outcomes of Kayapó and conventional colonist and livestock systems are compared in terms of soil fertility and yields. (author)
AN - 91-01523
BT - Fragile lands of Latin America: Strategies for sustainable development
CN - HD320.5.Z63F68 1989
CY - Boulder, CO
DA - 01/1989
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N1 - Chapter 11
N2 - This paper focuses on two main issues. First, it discusses the indigenous versus modernization approaches to soil resource management in Amazonian research and development strategies. The production systems of the Kayapó Indians of southern Para state are compared with those that inform current regional agricultural programs. While indigenous systems are complex, the principles that underlie them are not. Native land management models could be adapted by development planning agencies in a fuller way. Second, the outcomes of Kayapó and conventional colonist and livestock systems are compared in terms of soil fertility and yields. (author)
PB - Westview Press
PP - Boulder, CO
PY - 1989
SN - 0-8133-7705-6; 978-0-8133-7705-6
SP - 166
EP - 181
ST - Indigenous soil management in the Amazon basin
T2 - Fragile lands of Latin America: Strategies for sustainable development
T3 - Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development
TI - Indigenous soil management in the Amazon basin: Some implications for development
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18351601
ER -