TY - JOUR T1 - Bora Indian agroforestry: An alternative to deforestation JF - Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine Y1 - 1982 A1 - John M. Treacy KW - Amazon KW - Bora KW - deforestation KW - ecology KW - land management KW - methodology KW - Peru KW - tropical forests AB -

Native cultivators in the Amazon have developed efficient and ecologically sound methods for making the tropical forest yield useful products. Their principal form of agriculture - shifting cultivation [swidden agriculture] - has evolved into a system of land management with features worthy of careful study. (author)

This document looks at how shifting cultivation is linked to agroforestry - another kind of system of land use which is currently recommended for the tropics. It also describes the methods the researchers used to collect data on a Bora swidden field.

VL - 6 UR - http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/bora-indian-agroforestry-an-alternative-deforestation IS - 2 JO - Bora Indian agroforestry ER -