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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Reyes-Garcia, V
creators_name: Pascual, U
creators_name: Vadez, V
creators_name: et al, .
icrisatcreators_name: Vadez, V
affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona(Bellatera)
affiliation: Brandeis University(Waltham)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: Spain
country: USA
country: India
title: The Role of Ethnobotanical Skills and Agricultural Labor in Forest Clearance: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Ethnobotanical skills – Labor inputs – Market integration – Slash-and-burn agriculture – Tsimane’ (Bolivia)
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
date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
volume: 40
number: 3
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 310-321
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0044-7447
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0107-3
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citation:   Reyes-Garcia, V and Pascual, U and Vadez, V and et al, .  (2011) The Role of Ethnobotanical Skills and Agricultural Labor in Forest Clearance: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon.  AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 40 (3).  pp. 310-321.  ISSN 0044-7447     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/5861/1/AMBIO_40_3_310%E2%80%93321_2011.pdf