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creators_name: Reyes-Garcia, V
creators_name: Vadez, V
creators_name: Marti, N
creators_name: Huanca, T
creators_name: Leonard, W R
creators_name: Tanner, S
icrisatcreators_name: Vadez, V
affiliation: ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals
affiliation: Centro de Investigación Boliviana y Desarrollo Socio Integral
affiliation: Northwestern University
affiliation: The University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
country: Spain
country: India
country: Bolivia
country: USA
title: Ethnobotanical knowledge and crop diversity in swidden fields: a study in a native Amazonian society
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: Crop diversity protects food consumption in poor households within developing nations. Here we estimate the association between crop diversity on swidden fields and ethnobotanical knowledge. We conducted research among 215 male household heads from a native Amazonian society. Using multivariate regressions, we found higher crop diversity among households that depend on agricultural production for household consumption. We also found a statistically significant and positive, but low, association between the ethnobotanical knowledge of the male household head and crop diversity. Doubling the stock of ethnobotanical knowledge of the male household head is associated with a 9% increase in the number of crops sown by a household. The association remained after we controlled for the household level of market exposure, but vanished after we controlled for the social capital of the male household head. Future research should compare the association between ethnobotanical knowledge and crop diversity across different agricultural systems (i.e., home gardens, fallow fields).
date: 2008
publication: Human Ecology
volume: 36
number: 4
pagerange: 569-580
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-008-9177-2
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citation:   Reyes-Garcia, V and Vadez, V and Marti, N and Huanca, T and Leonard, W R and Tanner, S  (2008) Ethnobotanical knowledge and crop diversity in swidden fields: a study in a native Amazonian society.  Human Ecology, 36 (4).  pp. 569-580.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/729/1/HumEcol36_569-580_2008.pdf