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Guaymi agriculture, forest utilization and ethnobotany in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: An analysis of sustainability.

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Title/Author:	Guaymi agriculture, forest utilization and ethnobotany in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: An analysis of sustainability./
Author:	Koshear, Jeannine.
Description:	226 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: B, page: 5233.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-10B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Agronomy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9602618

Guaymi agriculture, forest utilization and ethnobotany in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: An analysis of sustainability.
Koshear, Jeannine.

Guaymi agriculture, forest utilization and ethnobotany in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: An analysis of sustainability. - 226 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: B, page: 5233.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1995.

The Guaymi, an indigenous group whose ancestral lands cover portions of the western Panama provinces of Bocas del Toro, Veraguas, and Chiriqui, began migrating in the 1940's to southeastern Costa Rica. There, on four reserves that were formally recognized by Costa Rican law in the late 1970's, they have established a way of life that in many respects strongly resembles that practiced in Panama. Their pattern of settlement is dispersed; they practice shifting agriculture, cultivating beans, corn and rice for the commercial trade and home consumption, as well as a number of tree and root crops, among them pejiballe, sweet manioc, nampi, and sweet potatoes.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018679
Agriculture, Agronomy.

Guaymi agriculture, forest utilization and ethnobotany in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: An analysis of sustainability.
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520 $a The Guaymi, an indigenous group whose ancestral lands cover portions of the western Panama provinces of Bocas del Toro, Veraguas, and Chiriqui, began migrating in the 1940's to southeastern Costa Rica. There, on four reserves that were formally recognized by Costa Rican law in the late 1970's, they have established a way of life that in many respects strongly resembles that practiced in Panama. Their pattern of settlement is dispersed; they practice shifting agriculture, cultivating beans, corn and rice for the commercial trade and home consumption, as well as a number of tree and root crops, among them pejiballe, sweet manioc, nampi, and sweet potatoes.
520 $a Their yearly cycle of agriculture is described, including soil classification, clearing, burning, planting, harvesting, and agrochemical use, along with the labor arrangements and credit availability. Production figures for basic grains from the Guaymi Coto Brus reserve are given. Non-woody and herbaceous cultivated plants, as well as tree crops, are listed. Subsistence activities such as hunting, fishing and gathering are described, along with their impact on the biota of the reserve. Aspects of land tenure are discussed, including the advantages that have accrued to the families who arrived in Costa Rica earliest, and how family relationships, friendships, and political alliances all influence access to land. A squatter invasion on the Guaymi reserve, and the success of the indigenous community in forcing the government to remove the squatters, is also documented.
520 $a Concepts of illness and healing are discussed, along with medicinal uses of locally gathered or cultivated plants. The preparation and usage of over one hundred plants in the Guaymi pharmacopoeia is included, as well as descriptions plants used in the making of handcrafts and musical instruments.
520 $a The impact of subsistence agriculture and the utilization of forest species is discussed. The rates of population growth, both in the indigenous and non-indigenous sectors, and the possibilities for sustainable agriculture and rural development are analyzed. The role of the Coto Brus reserve both as a cultural and biological refugium is outlined, particularly in light of the recently initiated Corridors project, an attempt to link the few isolated patches of forest that still remain along the Fila Costena in Coto Brus through habitat restoration.
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