@article{icrisat5861,
           title = {The Role of Ethnobotanical Skills and Agricultural Labor in Forest Clearance: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon},
       publisher = {Springer},
          author = {V Reyes-Garcia and U Pascual and V Vadez and . et al},
           pages = {310--321},
            year = {2011},
          volume = {40},
         journal = {AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment},
          number = {3},
        keywords = {Ethnobotanical skills ? Labor inputs ? Market integration ? Slash-and-burn agriculture ? Tsimane? (Bolivia)},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/5861/},
        abstract = {Research on the benefits of local ecological knowledge for conservation lacks empirical data on the pathways through which local knowledge might affect natural resources management. We test whether ethnobotanical skills, a proxy for local ecological knowledge, are associated to the clearance of forest through their interaction with agricultural labor. We collected information from men in a society of gatherers?horticulturalist, the Tsimane? (Bolivia). Data included a baseline survey, a survey of ethnobotanical skills (n = 190 men), and two surveys on agricultural labor inputs (n = 466 plots). We find a direct effect of ethnobotanical skills in lowering the extent of forest cleared in fallow but not in old-growth forest. We also find that the interaction between ethnobotanical skills and labor invested in shifting cultivation has opposite effects depending on whether the clearing is done in old-growth or fallow forest. We explain the finding in the context of Tsimane? increasing integration to the market economy}
}