Sustainability and the market: Survival strategies on the Bolivian Frontier
研究了玻利维亚热带边疆地区小农在土地积累和短期投机投资背景下，如何通过设计农耕系统实现可持续生计，并强调需关注特定社会群体的生计需求及其与区域环境的关系。
The cumulative effect of natural resource degradation has served to raise the issue of ‘sustainable development’ in many less developed countries (LDCs). In some respects the tropical frontier of countries such as Bolivia represents an inauspicious testing‐ground for this approach since the colonisation of the Amazon region has been characterised by land accumulation and speculative short‐term investment. However, there is evidence that technical solutions exist for many of the small farmers who have colonised this frontier, especially in the design of ‘farming systems’. What is still required is a broader view of the livelihood requirements of specific social groups, and their relationship to the wider, regional context in which farming systems are located.