Colonist farm income, off-farm work, cattle and differentiation in Ecuador's Northern Amazon

Human Organization

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-79

  Murphy, Laura L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deforestation; Differentiation; Ecuador; Income

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; INCOME; LIVESTOCK; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; RURAL ECONOMY;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0035041378     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.60.1.38rjx0aldu349vvh     Document Type: Article

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