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From the editor 2 FROM THE EDITOR tion of groups, and being able to hear their voices is introduction of goats, only one also developed mech- crucial for achieving the project goals of sustainable anisms for social control, an important condition for agriculture and natural resource management. the success of development projects. The fourth article, “Division of labor and resource Isidro Rimarachín Cabrera, Emma Zapata Martelo, management in eastern Pará, Brazil,” by Tereza and Verónica Vázquez García describe the survival Ximenes, is based on the study of an important strategies of men and women in San Pablo de Arriba root crop, cassava, in Bragantina, northern Brazil. (SPA), an Otomí community of Mexico in the seventh According to some researchers, cassava production article, “Gender, rural households, and biodiversity in in this area erodes the soils through slash and native Mexico.” Their study shows that the manage- burn practices, the soils are not appropriate, and ment of knowledge in seed selection of maize towards there are few economic advantages to its cultiva- varieties with higher protein content yield in tortillas, tion. Ximenes, however, argues that cassava produc- and drought resistance is knowledge that has been tion should continue in this area on the basis http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

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Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 18 (1) – Oct 19, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1023/A:1017332816179
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2 FROM THE EDITOR tion of groups, and being able to hear their voices is introduction of goats, only one also developed mech- crucial for achieving the project goals of sustainable anisms for social control, an important condition for agriculture and natural resource management. the success of development projects. The fourth article, “Division of labor and resource Isidro Rimarachín Cabrera, Emma Zapata Martelo, management in eastern Pará, Brazil,” by Tereza and Verónica Vázquez García describe the survival Ximenes, is based on the study of an important strategies of men and women in San Pablo de Arriba root crop, cassava, in Bragantina, northern Brazil. (SPA), an Otomí community of Mexico in the seventh According to some researchers, cassava production article, “Gender, rural households, and biodiversity in in this area erodes the soils through slash and native Mexico.” Their study shows that the manage- burn practices, the soils are not appropriate, and ment of knowledge in seed selection of maize towards there are few economic advantages to its cultiva- varieties with higher protein content yield in tortillas, tion. Ximenes, however, argues that cassava produc- and drought resistance is knowledge that has been tion should continue in this area on the basis

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