Indigenous agroforestry strategies meeting farmers' needs

Reference Type Book Chapter
Year of Publication
1990
Contributors Author: Janis B. Alcorn
Editor: Anthony B. Anderson
Book Title
Alternatives to deforestation: Steps towards sustainable use of the Amazon rain forest.
Pagination
141-151
Date Published
01/1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press
City
New York
Language
English
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ISBN
0-231-06892-1; 978-0-231-06892-5
Call Number
SD418.3.A53A526 1990
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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.
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Author Affiliation: Biology Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/803206060