Social and economic causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon basin: Natives and colonists. Working paper

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6018091

Garland, E B

The people in the Peruvian Amazon directly engaged in agriculture are the leading cause of deforestation; and can be divided into two groups, colonists and indigenous groups. The factors affecting the rate at which each group causes deforestation differ. The paper explores these differences in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley (the principal coca producing region in the world), focusing on the interrelationships between land availability, land tenure laws, and market forces on one hand, and agricultural intensification and deforestation on the other. The study concludes that the technological decisions of the two groups are guided by diverse sets of socioeconomic factors.

• Research Organization: Institute for Development Anthropology, Binghamton, NY (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6018091
• Report Number(s): PB-93-236792/XAB; IDA-WP-60; CNN: AID-DAN-1135-A-00-4068-00
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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