01758naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000210006024501190008126000090020052011110020965000170132065000130133765000110135065300170136165300110137877301870138917931682017-03-30       1992    bl ---       0--  u    #d1 aFEARNSIDE, P. M.  aAgropforestry in Brazil's Amazonian development policybthe role and limits of a potential use for degraded lands.  c1992  aAgroforestry is a use for deforested areas that is agromically, socially and environmentally preferable to the cattle pastures that now dominate land use in Brazilian Amazonia. Agroforestry advantages are for use in already deforested area - native forest should not be cut to implant these systems. Much can be done to improve agroforestry systems themselves. Achicving the potential social benefits will require a clear definition of criteria for selecting the bendiclarics of the systems. Economic conditions must be created hat remove the attraction of competing nonsutinable land uses such as pasture and increase the profitability of agroforestry. Evaluating proposals for agroforestry projects must use criteria that assign appropriate weights to environmental and social functions and that do not eliminate the projects because of the relatively long time required for economic return to begin. The place of agroforestry must be defined in the content of overall development policy. Commodity market resource limits sevorely restrict the area to which agroforestry system can be expected to expand.  aagroforestry  aAmazonia  aBrazil  aAgrofloresta  aBrasil  tIn: L.E. Aragon (ed.) Desenvolvimento sustentavel nos tropicos umidos. Belem: Associacao das Universidades Amazonicas (UNAMAZ) / Universidade Federal do Para (UFPA), 1992. p.417-433.