Bora Indian agroforestry: An alternative to deforestation
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1982
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Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
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6
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2
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15-16
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Date Published |
06/1982
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English
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Abstract |
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. |
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Bora Indian agroforestry
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