Agroforestry systems in Acre, Brazil

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	Permanent Link:	http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00054867/00001

Material Information
	Title:	Agroforestry systems in Acre, Brazil variability in local perspectives
	Physical Description:	x, 154 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
	Language:	English
	Creator:	Cartaxo Nobre, Francisco Rildo, 1962- ( Dissertant ) Schmink, Marianne ( Thesis advisor ) Hildebrand, Peter E. ( Reviewer ) Buhr, Kenneth L. ( Reviewer ) Nair, Ramachandran P. K. ( Reviewer ) Wood, Charles A. ( Degree grantor )
	Publisher:	University of Florida
	Place of Publication:	Gainesville, Fla.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Copyright Date:	1998

Subjects
	Subjects / Keywords:	Latin American Studies thesis, M.A ( lcsh ) Agroforestry -- Brazil ( lcsh ) Agroforestry -- Economic aspects -- Brazil ( lcsh ) Dissertations, Academic -- Latin American Studies -- UF ( lcsh )
	Genre:	bibliography ( marcgt ) non-fiction ( marcgt )
	Spatial Coverage:	Brazil--Acre

Notes
	Abstract:	This study presents the importance of agroforestry systems and the role they play in the livelihood of two types of producers in the state of Acre, located in the Western Brazilian Amazonia. The study built on PESACRE’s work, a local non-governmental organization, by carrying out a comparative analysis of two rural communities: Grupo Novo Ideal, an agricultural colonist group, and Comunidade Sao Joao of the Seringal Sao Miguel, a rubber tapper group. The work focused on how rubber tappers and agricultural colonist see agroforestry systems in relation to their current production systems, immediate needs and problems, as well as aspirations and hopes for the future. The main field research tools used were the land use feltboard, to map the social and physical smallholders’ resources, and field walks, as a pre=participant observation tool. By using participatory research tools, the study provided opportunities for all family members to express and share their opinions about their livelihood. To address key issues regarding agroforestry systems, it is fundamental to recognize that farmers’ decision-making behavior toward agroforestry systems adoption differs from farmer to farmer. For example, rubber tappers association agroforestry systems with their entire economic system and perceived more “in kind” benefits (food, aesthetic pleasure) of the agroforestry systems introduced by PESACRE than did colonists. The latter were more focused on plantation crop combinations geared toward cash generation and food production. Also, gender aspects were being influenced by the decisions about agroforestry strategies in achieving food security and cash income because non-traditional agroforestry systems seemed to demand more intensive labor from the household. As seen among smallholders in Acre the labor has been reorganized as a means to ensure the necessary labor force for the household’s innovations. Women have had a primordial importance in this “redimensioning” process, especially in the rubber tapper community, even though women have little participation in the decision-making process. Among colonists, women and men shared more equitably the responsibility of the overall production systems under the agroforestry approaches. Marketers also have influenced the development of agroforestry systems I both communities. However, distance to markets was not a major factor influencing agroforestry systems adoption, but rather access to them dictated the agroforestry composition and development. Then, when formulating agroforestry development projects, all questions must be analysed historically, regionally, and locally. Considering social as well as biophysical heterogeneity helps to discover hidden specificities of the effect of agroforestry on the household’s strategies.
	Thesis:	Thesis (M.A.)--University of Florida, 1998.
	Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-153).
	Statement of Responsibility:	by Francisco Rildo Cartaxo Nobre.
	General Note:	Typescript.
	General Note:	Vita.
	Funding:	Electronic resources created as part of a prototype UF Institutional Repository and Faculty Papers project by the University of Florida.

Record Information
	Bibliographic ID:	UF00054867
	Volume ID:	VID00001
	Source Institution:	University of Florida
	Holding Location:	University of Florida
	Rights Management:	All rights reserved, Board of Trustees of the University of Florida
	Resource Identifier:	aleph - 002366566 oclc - 39540382 notis - ALX1210

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