@inbook {884,
	title = {Indigenous soil management in the Amazon basin: Some implications for development},
	booktitle = {Fragile lands of Latin America: Strategies for sustainable development},
	series = {Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development},
	year = {1989},
	note = {Chapter 11},
	month = {1989},
	pages = {166-181},
	publisher = {Westview Press},
	organization = {Westview Press},
	address = {Boulder, CO},
	abstract = {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 Kayap{\'o} 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 Kayap{\'o} and conventional colonist and livestock systems are compared in terms of soil fertility and yields. (author)},
	keywords = {American Indians, deforestation, Kayapo, local knowledge, Native Americans, nutrition, pasture, Peru, rainforests, soil degradation, South America, tropical forests, Yurimaguas},
	isbn = {0-8133-7705-6; 978-0-8133-7705-6},
	url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18351601},
	author = {Susanna B. Hecht},
	editor = {John O. Browder}
}
@article {827,
	title = {Los agricultores de Yurimaguas: Uso de la tierra y estrategias de cultivo en la selva peruana},
	year = {1989},
	note = {includes photographs, diagrams, maps, bibliography},
	month = {[1989]},
	institution = {Lima, Peru},
	address = {Centro de Investigaci{\'o}n y Promoci{\'o}n Amaz{\'o}nica},
	abstract = {<p>(trans.) The Farmers of Yurimaguas: Land Use and Cultivation Strategies in the Peruvian Jungle</p><p>This book is the result of a study conducted by the Center for Amazonian Promotion and Investigation. The book contains nine chapters examining traditional agricultural practices and rural domestic farms. The study is based on a perspective recently developed by agriculturists which is farmer-oriented instead of the traditional western development model. The principal objectives in the book are understanding the complex system of subsistence agriculture and the cultivation of commercial products in the Yurimaguas area. The book consists of an in-depth look at the results of the study conducted in the Yurimaguas. Some important areas of the study are the work force, ethnoecology, crops (such as rice, yucca, plantain and bananas, corn, beans, peanuts, sugar cane, pineapple, and sweet potatoes). The authors stress the importance of indigenous technology and emphasize the methods in which the peasants of Yurimaguas have regained their traditional techniques.</p>},
	keywords = {Amazon, bananas, beans, corn, crops, ethnoecology, farmer participatory research, peanuts, peasants, pineapple, plantains, rice, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, technology, work force, yucca, Yurimaguas},
	author = {Pedro Bidegaray and Robert E. Rhoades}
}
