TY - ECHAP
KW - Peru
KW - medicine
KW - mamey
KW - corn
KW - plantains
KW - charcoal 
KW - economics
KW - palms
KW - manioc
KW - pineapple
KW - Bora Indians
KW - fiber
KW - coca
KW - barbasco
KW - tropical cedar
KW - umair
KW - Riberenos
KW - cashews
KW - uvilla
KW - caimito
KW - zapote
KW - pomarosa
KW - pichirina
KW - rifari
KW - papayas
KW - toronja
AU - Christine Padoch
AU - Wil de Jong
AU - Henry L. Gholz
AB - Recent research on traditional agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon indicates that agroforestry practices are widespread and extremely varied. This article describes five agroforestry systems found in the vicinity of Iquitos, Peru. Although all begin as shifting cultivation fields, they differ greatly in species composition and richness, in intensity and length of management, in economic orientation, and in adaptation to particular ecological conditions. Four of the five systems are found in mestizo communities of the region. The information presented shows that basic traditional swidden-fallow agroforestry practices are adaptable to varying environmental and economic situations (author).
AN - 91-02067
BT - Agroforestry: Realities, possibilities and potentials
CN - S494.5.A45A379 1987
CY - Dordrecht, Netherlands
DA - 01/1987
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - Recent research on traditional agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon indicates that agroforestry practices are widespread and extremely varied. This article describes five agroforestry systems found in the vicinity of Iquitos, Peru. Although all begin as shifting cultivation fields, they differ greatly in species composition and richness, in intensity and length of management, in economic orientation, and in adaptation to particular ecological conditions. Four of the five systems are found in mestizo communities of the region. The information presented shows that basic traditional swidden-fallow agroforestry practices are adaptable to varying environmental and economic situations (author).
PB - Martin Nijhoff Publishers in cooperation with ICRAF; distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers
PP - Dordrecht, Netherlands
PY - 1987
SN - 90-247-3590-4
SP - 179
EP - 195
T2 - Agroforestry: Realities, possibilities and potentials
TI - Traditional agroforestry practices of native and Ribereno farmers in the lowland Peruvian Amazon
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16352684
ER -