Bora Indian agroforestry: An alternative to deforestation

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Year of Publication
1982
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Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pagination
15-16
Date Published
06/1982
Language
English
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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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