TY - RPRT T1 - Los agricultores de Yurimaguas: Uso de la tierra y estrategias de cultivo en la selva peruana Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pedro Bidegaray A1 - Robert E. Rhoades KW - Amazon KW - bananas KW - beans KW - corn KW - crops KW - ethnoecology KW - farmer participatory research KW - peanuts KW - peasants KW - pineapple KW - plantains KW - rice KW - sugar cane KW - sweet potatoes KW - technology KW - work force KW - yucca KW - Yurimaguas AB -

(trans.) The Farmers of Yurimaguas: Land Use and Cultivation Strategies in the Peruvian Jungle

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.

JF - Centro de investigación y promoción Amazónica documento PB - Lima, Peru CY - Centro de Investigación y Promoción Amazónica N1 - includes photographs, diagrams, maps, bibliography U5 - 136 pp. JO - Los agricultores de Yurimaguas ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Traditional agroforestry practices of native and Ribereno farmers in the lowland Peruvian Amazon T2 - Agroforestry: Realities, possibilities and potentials Y1 - 1987 A1 - Christine Padoch A1 - Wil de Jong ED - Henry L. Gholz KW - barbasco KW - Bora Indians KW - caimito KW - cashews KW - charcoal KW - coca KW - corn KW - economics KW - fiber KW - mamey KW - manioc KW - medicine KW - palms KW - papayas KW - Peru KW - pichirina KW - pineapple KW - plantains KW - pomarosa KW - Riberenos KW - rifari KW - toronja KW - tropical cedar KW - umair KW - uvilla KW - zapote 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). JF - Agroforestry: Realities, possibilities and potentials PB - Martin Nijhoff Publishers in cooperation with ICRAF; distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers CY - Dordrecht, Netherlands SN - 90-247-3590-4 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16352684 ER -