Author: Susan V. Poats
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This paper examines the factors causing agricultural success or failure among colonists in the Transamazon Highway colonization project. A brief description of the project includes resons why, after only five years of operation, the focus of the project turned from small farmers to large agro-business or corporate development.
Agricultural Sucess and Failure Among Transamazon Highway Colonists
Author: Susan V. Poats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This paper examines the factors causing agricultural success or failure among colonists in the Transamazon Highway colonization project. A brief description of the project includes resons why, after only five years of operation, the focus of the project turned from small farmers to large agro-business or corporate development.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This paper examines the factors causing agricultural success or failure among colonists in the Transamazon Highway colonization project. A brief description of the project includes resons why, after only five years of operation, the focus of the project turned from small farmers to large agro-business or corporate development.
Agricultural Development in the Transamazon Highway
Author: Emilio F. Moran
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pioneer Farmers of the Transamazon Highway
Author: Emilio F. Moran
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Florida Journal of Anthropology
Farming Systems Research Paper Series
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Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Rainforest Corridors
Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520044975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Genesis of the Transamazon schme. The ecological setting. Agro-ecossystem productivity. Settlement and disease. Potential public health problems. Public health services and alternative medicine. The Transamazon and regional development.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520044975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Genesis of the Transamazon schme. The ecological setting. Agro-ecossystem productivity. Settlement and disease. Potential public health problems. Public health services and alternative medicine. The Transamazon and regional development.
Transamazon Highway
Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
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Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Working Paper Series
ESTIMATION OF CARRYING CAPACITY FOR HUMAN POPULATIONS IN A PART OF THE TRANSAMAZON HIGHWAY COLONIZATION AREA OF BRASIL. (VOLUMES I AND II).
Author: Philip Martin Fearnside
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This study is aimed at estimating carrying capacity for the human population in a portion of Brasil's Transamazon Highway colonization area a variety of assumptions. Special emphasis is given to the effect of variability in a number of factors related to agricultural production and comsumption. Carrying capacity is defined operationally in terms of a gradient of increasing probability of colonist failure with population density within a limited range of densities. Both the criteria defining a "failure" and the critical value for the maximum acceptable probability of colonist failure can be culturally defined. Multiple criteria, including both comsumption and environmental quality measures can be used. Failure probabilities for carrying capacity estimation aretaken to be sustainable over a long period of years. A computer simulation is developed which reproduces many features of the agroecossystem of which the colonists are a part, including sectors for agricultural production, resource allocation, product allocation, and population. Gradients of failure probabilities for the estimation of carrying capacity are constructed from information output by the simulations. Both deterministic and stochastic runs are made, allowing the assessment of the importance of variability. Variability in crop yields results in colonist failure frequencies based on a number of criteria which greatly exeed the goals of Brazilian planners, despite restrictions on the data set which tend to make simulation results over-optimistic.
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This study is aimed at estimating carrying capacity for the human population in a portion of Brasil's Transamazon Highway colonization area a variety of assumptions. Special emphasis is given to the effect of variability in a number of factors related to agricultural production and comsumption. Carrying capacity is defined operationally in terms of a gradient of increasing probability of colonist failure with population density within a limited range of densities. Both the criteria defining a "failure" and the critical value for the maximum acceptable probability of colonist failure can be culturally defined. Multiple criteria, including both comsumption and environmental quality measures can be used. Failure probabilities for carrying capacity estimation aretaken to be sustainable over a long period of years. A computer simulation is developed which reproduces many features of the agroecossystem of which the colonists are a part, including sectors for agricultural production, resource allocation, product allocation, and population. Gradients of failure probabilities for the estimation of carrying capacity are constructed from information output by the simulations. Both deterministic and stochastic runs are made, allowing the assessment of the importance of variability. Variability in crop yields results in colonist failure frequencies based on a number of criteria which greatly exeed the goals of Brazilian planners, despite restrictions on the data set which tend to make simulation results over-optimistic.
Missing a Moving Target?
Author: Michael Richards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description