2018
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-018-9408-3
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Forest Dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon: Understanding Processes of Change

Abstract: The Peruvian government seeks to stop deforestation in its primary forest in the Amazon. It alleges that the main culprit of deforestation is smallholders who practice swidden farming. However, this is a simplified view, concealing the main reasons for deforestation and the complexity of land use changes. By studying land and forest use through the lens of the indigenous Kechwa-Lamas people, who live along forest covered mountain slopes in the region San Martín, we attempt to show the complex and intertwined r… Show more

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“…We have to understanding of different types of forest vegetation, and its integration with agricultural systems, because, if actively managed, are also important components that can safeguard forests (MARQUARDT et al, 2018). Sears et al (2018) show that sampled farmers agreed that timber species in their agricultural fallows is a valuable resource for their livelihoods.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We have to understanding of different types of forest vegetation, and its integration with agricultural systems, because, if actively managed, are also important components that can safeguard forests (MARQUARDT et al, 2018). Sears et al (2018) show that sampled farmers agreed that timber species in their agricultural fallows is a valuable resource for their livelihoods.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the south of Pará state, Brazilian Amazon, the adoption of shaded cocoa by farmers and ranchers is stimulated by favorable conditions such as attractive national and international prices, the expectation of a global cocoa supply gap; environmental policies obliging landowners to reforest excess cleared land with native trees and biophysical conditions favorable for growing cocoa in part of the region (Schroth et al, 2016c). According to available technical reports from both selected sites (Fréguin-Gresh et al, 2016;Marquardt et al, 2019) and framed in the forest trasntition curve theory, is sound to say that the agricultural lanscape in the Waslala municipality is under the "recovery phase" where new cocoa plots being established are potentially labeled as a reforestation effort; while the landscepe of Irazola district is still under the "tree cover decline" phase so any tree cover loss, trigger by either the expantion of cocoa or other annual or perennial crops, is potentially seem as a deforestation event (Barbier et al, 2010;Dewi et al, 2017).…”
Section: Cocoa Cultivation Models In Nicaragua and Perumentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Currently, the main threats to the diversity of small mammals in San Martín are the fragmentation and loss of habitat due to changes in land use mainly to expand the agricultural frontier (Marquardt et al 2019). Changes in land use in other Peruvian regions with forests generate changes in diversity, abundance, forest dynamics, and trophic structure (Mena 2010).…”
Section: Conservationmentioning
confidence: 99%