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Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia And the Andes
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The Andes and Amazonia are two of the harshest regions on earth. The opportunities for productive agriculture, even with modern methods, seem limited, given conditions of climate, terrain, and soils. Nevertheless, indigenous people, both prehistoric and more recent, have developed systems of cultivation that have been intensive, highly productive, and sustainable, reclaiming marginal lands and supporting large numbers of people and complex societies. This book examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. The evidence utilized comes from abandoned fields, historical documents, and current practices. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts. And while this knowledge may not always be directly applicable to development today, it does provide us with some unique techniques and some basic principles for farming difficult environments.
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“Given the omnipresence of terraces in the Andes, relatively few comprehensive studies have been conducted on this form of agrarian land use, especially for periods prior to the Inka Late Horizon (1450–1532 CE) and in contrast to other Andean farming agrosystems mentioned above”
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“Past human activities such as forest burning, deforestation, soil amendments, raised field agriculture, and shifting cultivation may have left ecological legacies that persist in the modern landscape”
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“This idea, which comes cloaked in red (Robinson, 2018) and even Northern academic production aligned to the northern imperialist agenda (Vettese, 2018), forgets human history is a history of landscape management (Denevan, 1992(Denevan, , 2001), 6 and the Indigenous (Schuster et al., 2019) are some of the very best guardians of biodiversity.”
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- Denevan, W. M.
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- Oxford University PressOxford
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- 2001-01-25
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- en
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