This paper describes smallholder agricultural systems in the lower Amazon where the Santarém sub-Cluster is based. Here, despite the fertility of floodplain soils and a long tradition of floodplain farming, smallholder agriculture is stagnating. Once the basis of the floodplain economy, its role in smallholder subsistence has now been taken over by commercial fishing and extensive cattle ranching.
A Amazônia no caminho da transição agrícola mundial
Neste documento, o Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), em colaboração com o Woods Hole Research Center, apresentam um breve resumo do contexto global do desmatamento na Amazônia e identificam as oportunidades atuais para se ordenar o uso de recursos naturais na região através do mercado global.