Food from the Rain Forest

Synopsis: Deforested areas in the wet tropics have been farmed in a variety of ways with different ecological and economic consequences. The programme was filmed in south-east Mexico in an area that until recently was completely covered by rainforest. It compares traditional ‘slash and burn’ subsistence agriculture and mixed cropping of small scale garden farming of a Popolucan Indian community with high input, intensive cultivation of pineapple, tobacco and sugar cane monocultures. The effect of government land use policy is also shown to favour inefficient cattle ranching.
Series: Ecology, Course S326
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1986
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: Agriculture; Environmental science
Keywords: agriculture; ecosystems; Indians of North & South America; Mexico; rain forests; tropical rain forest ecosystems

Producer

Tony Jolly

Cast

Peter Evans

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