A Ruralisation of an Amazonian Frontier ?
Résumé
This work is part of a “Zone Atelier” program in Amazonia. Given a quality label by the CNRS in October 2001, the Zone Atelier “Amazonian pioneer front” currently brings together staff attached to the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) with teams from the CNEARC , CNRS , INRA , IRD and the University of the Antilles-French Guyana (UAG). These groups are addressing the conditions for the sustainability of family agriculture in Amazonia, by considering the diversity of the Amazonian biophysical environments along with the practices and skills of the populations using the natural resources, as well as the forms of social organisation, both local and regional, and finally the evolution of the economic and political context. Especially, the aim of this paper is to wonder about the causes of the deforestation and the possible issues of this situation by the way of a locality monograph.