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The document discusses different types of agriculture practiced in the Amazon region, including shifting cultivation by indigenous groups and caboclos, pioneer farming by smallholders, cattle ranching, perennial and mechanized annual cropping, and floodplain agriculture. It describes the characteristics and impacts of these different systems and discusses alternative management approaches and limits to agricultural expansion in Amazonia given human carrying capacity constraints.

Author

Décio Guzmán

Language

EN