Ecological degradation and agricultural intensification in the Andean highlands |
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Authors: | Ricardo A Godoy |
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Institution: | (1) Harvard Institute for International Development, 1737 Cambridge Street, 02155 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | Andean cultural ecologists have made two claims in recent years: ecological decomposition is absent due to effective indigenous management of communal resources, and agricultural intensification is inversely related to altitude. Drawing on material from the Jukumani Indians of Northern Potosi, Bolivia, these assertions are challenged. First, there is little evidence to prove or disprove ecological degradation. Second, the location of agricultural intensification, as the Jukumani data suggests, is influenced by altitude as well as by the presence of market.Fieldwork in Bolivia was carried out between January 1979 and May 1981. This essay was originally presented at a conference entitled, How Communities Resolve Common Property Problems, sponsored by the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Center for Population Studies of Harvard University in the spring semester of 1983. |
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Keywords: | ecological degradation agricultural intensification Andes population growth land tenure rural taxation Tragedy of the Commons mining Jukumani |
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