land tenure, ecological zone, and agricultural regime in the Central Andes

摘要: Using a sample of community studies, the interrelationships between land tenure, agricultural regime, and ecological zone in Central Andes are explored. Communal control is found to be associated with grazing sectorial fallowing, while private permanent irrigation, specialized horticulture, long-term fallowing. These patterns shown produced by population pressure market relations interacting vertical ecology Andean area. The importance these findings debate over “Tragedy Commons” degradation mountain environment discussed. [land Commons,” Andes, agriculture, ecology]