Batistella, M. and Bolfe, E.L. and Moran, E.F. (2013) Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu: An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon. In: Human-Environment Interactions. Springer Netherlands, pp. 321-342. ISBN 978-94-007-4780-7
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on historical perspectives of land use in Tomé-Açu using remote sensing as a tool to assess land use/land cover and ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration. The results show that agroforestry systems in Tomé-Açu play an important role at the property and landscape scales, trends that should be monitored as they appear to offer an alternative to conversion of forest to pasture. The Amazon-wide dominant trajectory toward conversion to pasture, based on reduced labor needs, if compared to intensive agroforestry systems, requires much more land to yield the same returns to a household at current management levels. If one considers the potential of agroforestry as a source of carbon sequestration, the returns are even higher and may contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse effects.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Author Affiliation: | Embrapa Monitoramento por Sat´elite, Av. Soldado Passarinho, 303, Fazenda Chapad˜ao, CEP 13070-115 Campinas, SP, Brazil |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics Social Sciences > Agricultural Extension,Technology, ICT Environmental Science |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Balakrishna Garadasu |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2013 06:11 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2013 06:11 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4780-7_14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9455 |
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