Posted by admin | Posted in Peru | Posted on 26-11-2010
Tags: agriculture, business, Peru, peru agriculture and industry, politics, reference
Saving The Amazon Rain Forest with sustainable agriculture.
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Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology) $31.95 While anthropologists and ecologists have carefully described the activities of the slash-and-burn cultivators, ranchers, and miners of tropical South America, they have largely overlooked the economic strategies and political struggles of riverine people who survive by flood-recession agriculture and fishing. These ribere¤os, who constitute the majority of the inhabitants of the Amazonian flood… |
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Another Boom for Amazonia?: Examining the Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of the New Camu Camu Industry in Peru $29.95 This study examines the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the new camu camu industry in Peru. Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) is a small tree native to wetlands of the Amazon basin. It is especially abundant in Peruvian Amazonia. The high vitamin-C content of the fruit has generated interest in exporting camu camu products from Amazonia to more-developed countries. The government of Peru… |
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Household and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru $55.00 Household and Class Relations offers an adept and multifaceted look at modern peasant family relation- ships. With the perspectives of an anthropologist and sociologist as well as those of an economist, Deere brings a fresh approach to the classic question: how do households continue to exist as units of production and reproduction in the face of their growing proletarianization and impoverishment… |
