Indigenous market-oriented agroforestry: Dissecting local diversity in Western Amazonia

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-44

  Coomes, O T ^a   Burt, G J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Land distribution; Peru; Rain forest; Shifting cultivation; Swidden fallow

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTRA-REGIONAL VARIATION; LAND USE; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY;

PERU, IQUITOS, LORETO DEPARTMENT;

EID: 0030875512     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005834816188     Document Type: Article

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