Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2018 Jul 5;13(7):e0199518. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199518. eCollection 2018.
This paper compares land use patterns of mestizo colonists and indigenous populations in the central Ecuadorian Amazon, based on data from a household survey covering mestizo colonist, Kichwa and Shuar households. As expected, colonists mostly engage in commercial agriculture and cattle ranching, but there are substantial differences in land use patterns between the Shuar and the Kichwa. The Shuar engage in cash cropping and cattle ranching, and on average, devote even more land to agricultural uses than mestizo colonists in this sample. In contrast, the Kichwa engage more in subsistence crop production and less in commercial agriculture. Such different patterns appear related to local conditions, earlier migratory and settlement patterns, and the level of exposure to markets. The implications of this for policy are explored in the conclusions.
本文比较了厄瓜多尔中部亚马逊地区的梅斯蒂索殖民者和土著居民的土地利用模式，其依据是对涵盖梅斯蒂索殖民者、基奇瓦和舒阿尔家庭的家庭调查数据。正如预期的那样，殖民者主要从事商业农业和养牛业，但在舒阿尔和基奇瓦之间，土地利用模式存在着很大的差异。舒阿尔人从事商品作物种植和养牛业，平均而言，他们用于农业用途的土地甚至比本样本中的梅斯蒂索殖民者还要多。相比之下，基奇瓦人更多地从事自给作物生产，而较少从事商业农业。这种不同的模式似乎与当地条件、早期的迁徙和定居模式以及接触市场的程度有关。结论部分探讨了这对政策的影响。
