TY  - JOUR
AV  - restricted
A1  - Reyes-Garcia, V
A1  - Pascual, U
A1  - Vadez, V
A1  - et al, .
TI  - The Role of Ethnobotanical Skills and Agricultural Labor in Forest Clearance: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0107-3
JF  - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
SN  - 0044-7447
PB  - Springer
N2  - 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
KW  - Ethnobotanical skills ? Labor inputs ? Market integration ? Slash-and-burn agriculture ? Tsimane? (Bolivia)
Y1  - 2011///
SP  - 310
ID  - icrisat5861
EP  - 321
VL  - 40
IS  - 3
ER  -