Fragile Lands of Latin America

Browder, John O.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Fragile Lands and Technology Transfer: Conceptual Frameworks -- The Geography of Fragile Lands in Latin America -- Development of Fragile Lands: An Integrated Approach Reconsidered -- Transferring Traditional Technology: A Bottom-Up Approach for Fragile Lands -- Strategies for Tropical Rainforest Management -- Economic Prospects from Tropical Rainforest Ethnobotany -- Agricultural Systems on the Floodplains of the Peruvian Amazon -- Production and Profit in Agroforestry: An Example from the Peruvian Amazon -- Costs and Benefits of Floodplain Forest Management by Rural Inhabitants in the Amazon Estuary: A Case Study of Açai Palm Production -- Sustained Yield Management of Natural Forests: The Palcazú Production Forest -- Cuyabeno Wildlife Production Reserve -- Extractive Reserves: The Rubber Tappers’ Strategy for Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rainforest -- Indigenous Soil Management in the Amazon Basin: Some Implications for Development -- An Economic Analysis of Huastec Mayan Forest Management -- Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture in the Andean Highlands -- Agricultural Terraces in Peru’s Colca Valley: Promises and Problems of an Ancient Technology -- Raised Fields and Sustainable Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru -- A Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture on Desert Streambeds -- Arroyos and the Development of Agriculture in Northern Mexico -- Research in Progress -- Developing the Chocó Region of Colombia -- Socioeconomic Analysis of Agroforestry Systems Applied on Demonstration Farms in Central America