Indigenous agroforestry strategies meeting farmers' needs
Title | Indigenous agroforestry strategies meeting farmers' needs |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1990 |
Authors | Alcorn, JB |
Editor | Anderson, AB |
Book Title | Alternatives to deforestation: Steps towards sustainable use of the Amazon rain forest. |
Pagination | 141-151 |
Date Published | 1990 |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
City | New York |
Language | English |
ISBN | 0-231-06892-1; 978-0-231-06892-5 |
Call Number | SD418.3.A53A526 1990 |
Keywords | agroforestry; Bora; deforestation; ecology; Huastec; Mexico; Peru |
Abstract | Seven characteristics of indigenous agroforestry strategies are discussed: they incorporate native trees and communities; they rely on natural succession; they use natural environmental variation; they incorporate numerous crop and native species; they are flexible; they spread risks by retaining diversity; and they work to ensure independent survival using backup resources available to the community. Specific examples from the sequential agroforestry and forest grove systems of Mexican Huastec and Peruvian Bora farmers show the ways in which indigenous strategies are used. |
Notes | Author Affiliation: Biology Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA |
URL | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/803206060 |