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Some of the perceived virtues of agroforestry may have been oversold, but it is certainly less damaging to the environment than some other land uses, particularly cattle ranching…
One of the most interesting and durable environmental modifications was the creation of Amazonian Dark Earths, including both terra petra do índio and terra mulata, whose origin…
La ciudad es el espacio donde se desenvuelven múltiples acciones sociales y bajo la cual también se desarrollan variadas y nuevas formas de violencia. Este ha sido un tema…
The decade-old Transamazon Highway provides useful stage for examining some of the major issues related to frontier conquest and the impact of pioneer settlement on one of the…
Amazonia, the world´s largest tropical rain forest, is often assumed to be a virtually untouched wilderness. The region is often referred to as a demographic void; there is on…
Amazonia contains the largest stretch of tropical rain-forest, this vast mosaic of forest communities, secundary growth, natural and Man-induced grasslands and swamps, contains…
The paper is a review of the book Amazonia: Agriculture and Land Use Research, edited by Susanna Hecht. The book is the proceedings of a conference held at CIAT (Centro…
The purpose of this study is to analyze the constraints holding back a fuller deployment of agroforestry systems in the Brazilian Amazon, and to identify opportunities for…
Much attention in the media and scientific literature has focused on the destruction of tropical forest in Amazonia since the early 1970s, especially in the Brazilian states of…
In 1970, the Brazilian government embarked on a project effectively to occupy the "demographic void" of the world´s largest tropical rain forest, covering 5 million km2 of the…
The paper reviews agricultural problems associated with Brazil´s effort to colonize a 3000 km pioneer rain forest highway. Attention is focused on cash crops since a major…
De una u otra forma y, principalmente en esta región, está vigente el estereotipo de que las políticas exteriores son el resultado de los exabruptos de los presidentes, o de sus…