The Amazonian Caboclo and the açaí palm
Subtitle: forest farmers in the global market
By: Eduardo S. Brondízio
Series: Advances in economic botany -- v. 16; Advances in economic botany -- v. 16.
Publisher: The New York Botanical Garden Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bronx, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780893274764
Subjects: Bosproducten; Caboclos (Brazilian people); Tree crops; Economic Botany; Açaí palm; Economische aspecten; Sociale aspecten; Agriculture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: Caboclo invisibility and forest management; title: Views of productive land and the identity of Caboclos as rural producers; title: Land cover in a transitional landscape; title: Palm ethnobotany and Caboclo material culture; title: The social landscape and land use change; title: Açaí palm fruit: from a staple to a fashionable food; title: Açaí palm management and agroforestry systems; title: Shifting cycles, shifting opportunities.