Agricultural land use among mestizo colonist and indigenous populations: Contrasting patterns in the Amazon.

This paper compares land use patterns of mestizo colonists and indigenous populations in the central Ecuadorian Amazon, based on data from a household survey covering mestizo colonist, Kichwa and Shuar households. As expected, colonists mostly engage in commercial agriculture and cattle ranching, bu...

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Main Authors: Cristian Vasco, Richard Bilsborrow, Bolier Torres, Verena Griess
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6033409?pdf=render