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Pasture or permanent crops after slash-and-burn cultivation? Land-use choice in three Amazon colonies

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Title Pasture or permanent crops after slash-and-burn cultivation? Land-use choice in three Amazon colonies
 
Creator Fujisaka, Sam
White, D.
 
Subject agrosilvopastoral systems
diversification
fallow
forest products
land use
perennials
shifting cultivation
sistemas agrosilvopascícolas
diversificación
barbecho
productos forestales
utilización de la tierra
plantas perennes
cultivo migratorio
forestry
 
Description Land use was examined in three settlements Pedro Peixoto in Acre and Theobroma in Rondonia, Brazil, and Pucallpa, in Peru. Research aimed at characterizing the differences in land use after initial slash-and-burn, and presenting hypotheses to assess the feasibility of improved land uses. Settlers in the Amazon practice slash-and-burn agriculture in forest lands to produce annual crops. After cropping, lands are converted to pasture, or planted with perennial crops, or fallowed in anticipation of future annual crop production. Land use after slash-and-burn cultivation in forest lands differed among the colonies examined. Whereas colonists in Pedro Peixoto converted lands to pasture for cattle production, settlers in Theobroma adopted a strategy encompassing both dual-purpose (milk and meat) cattle and perennial crop production. The more heterogeneous settlers in Pucallpa, who included small-scale cattle ranchers and riverine and forest slash-and-burn farmers, gave more importance to perennial crops. Hypotheses are suggested regarding the described land use differences, and implications for the adoption of agroforestry are discussed.
 
Date 1998
2014-10-02T08:32:57Z
2014-10-02T08:32:57Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier 1572-9680
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43926
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006195810077
 
Language en
 
Rights Limited Access
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Agroforestry Systems