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Deforested areas in the wet tropics have been farmed in a variety of ways with different ecological and economic consequences. This programme was filmed in south east mexico in an area that until r...ecently was totally covered bt rain forest. it compares traditional 'slash and burn' subsistence agriculture and mixed cropping of small scale garden farming of a Popolucan Indian Community with high input, intensive cultivation of pineapple, tobacco and sugarcane monocultures. The effect of government land use policy is also shown to favour inefficient cattle ranching.
Deforested areas in the wet tropics have been farmed in a variety of ways with different ecological and economic consequences. This programme was filmed in south east mexico in an area that until r...ecently was totally covered bt rain forest. it compares traditional 'slash and burn' subsistence agriculture and mixed cropping of small scale garden farming of a Popolucan Indian Community with high input, intensive cultivation of pineapple, tobacco and sugarcane monocultures. The effect of government land use policy is also shown to favour inefficient cattle ranching.
| Module code and title: | S326, Ecology |
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| Item code: | S326; 15 |
| First transmission date: | 14-09-1986 |
| Published: | 1986 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Paul Ampuero; Peter Evans |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cattle ranching; Deforestation; Farming; Garden farming; Mexico; Pineapple cultivation; Popolucan Indian Community; Slash and burn; Tobacco; Tropics |
| Subject terms: | Rain forest ecology |
| Master spool number: | HOU5097 |
| Production number: | FOUS383R |
| Videofinder number: | 1880 |
| Available to public: | no |
