A shot note on agriculture practised in Amazon valley?

Question

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Answer 1

In the Alexander von Humboldt National Park in eastern Cuba many endemic animals and plants are found in various different natural habitats, which are considered to be the most important ones for in-situ conservation in the entire Insular Caribbean. In some areas of the National Park agriculture is practised. Thus, the objective of this study was to document and analyse the different land use activities and their consequences for local resource management and conservation of biodiversity in two village areas. A particular question was: what has changed since the foundation of the National Park in 1996? As time series data for land use and aerial photographs were not available for this part of Cuba, a qualitative evaluation was carried out. For this, six different land use units were mapped in 2001 and additional information gathered for areas with special interest related to sustainable land use and resource conservation. Although most parts of the study area are influenced to various degrees by human impact, the different types of land use seem presently not to have a crucial or detrimental impact on the land resources of the Alexander von Humboldt National Park. However, exploitation of the natural resources in certain areas could be improved with different management options to reach sustainability as well as to meet the conservation objectives of the National Park. This includes reduced or abandoned agricultural use of steep slopes to reduce erosion risk as well as a facilitated regeneration of natural vegetation in many parts of the study area to be able to conserve the high valuable biodiversity of the Park. Environmental education seems to have played an important and successful role since the foundation of the Park in 1996. Since then, cropping on steep slopes as well as illegal logging and poaching could be reduced.
biodiversity - buffer zone - Caribbean - protected area - resource management - world heritage

This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.

Answer 2

good question! a good place to begin on the web is at www.answers.com. agriculture, if you include hardwood harvesting in your definition, is very controversial in the Amazon region. it is very large, larger than Europe! and, there are literally thousands of rivers. also, a google search yields lots of sites, and they are scattered in focus and content. one interesting site is from Purdue U. it is a chapter from a book that may give you a good sense of context (plus, an extensive list of references!).

good luck!