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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…

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Nigel J. H. Smith and Richard E. Schultes
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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…

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Nigel J. H. Smith
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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…

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Nigel Smith, Jean Dubois, Dean Current, Ernst Lutz and Charles Clement
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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…

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N. J. H. Smith, T. J. Fik, P. de T. Alvim, I. C. Falesi and E. A. S. Serrao
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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…

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Nigel J.H. Smith
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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…

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Nigel J.H. Smith
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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…

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Adrián Bonilla
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El documento plantea que la matriz conservadora se convirtió en una expresión política definida, mediante un movimiento estudiantil desde una de las universidades de Chile. Esta…

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Fabián Bustamante Olguín
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Through an examination of interventions in the agrarian structures and rural society of the Ecuadorian Andes over the past 40 years, this article explores the gradual imposition…

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Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar
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A partir de la constatación de que la magnitud de la subnutrición constituye uno de los grandes problemas a escala planetaria para las organizaciones multilaterales de desarrollo,…

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Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar
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Ecological economics was constituted in the late 1980 as a transdisplinary field of study attracting systems ecologists and dissident economists. Inspiration was drawn from N…

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Joan Martínez Alier
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Livro introdutório às relações internacionais para um programa da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) de Ensino à Distância capitaneado pela…

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Thiago Moreira de Souza Rodrigues
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