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Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu: An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon

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This chapter focuses on historical perspectives of land use in Tomé-Açu using remote sensing as a tool to assess land use/land cover and ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration. The results show that agroforestry systems in Tomé-Açu play an important role at the property and landscape scales, trends that should be monitored as they appear to offer an alternative to conversion of forest to pasture. The Amazon-wide dominant trajectory toward conversion to pasture, based on reduced labor needs, if compared to intensive agroforestry systems, requires much more land to yield the same returns to a household at current management levels. If one considers the potential of agroforestry as a source of carbon sequestration, the returns are even higher and may contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse effects.

We thank the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for funding the research project entitled “Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Towards Sustainability” (NASA LBA-ECO project no. NNG06GD86A). This project is part of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazônia Programme, which examined the human and physical dimensions of land-cover change. We also thank Bibiana Teixeira de Almeida and Vera Viana for reviewing the manuscript.

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    In 1952, Tomé-Açu inhabitants initiated an emancipation movement at the municipality of Acará. The state government of Pará, by means of Law No. 1,127 in 1955, authorized the establishment of the municipality of Tomé-Açu. However, in October 1955, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court ruled the law unconstitutional. This decision caused the recommencement of several political movements with the aim of reestablishing Tomé-Açu, and on March 17, 1959, the state government promulgated a new law (No. 1,725) which reinstated it as a municipality. On September 1, 1959, the municipality of Tomé-Açu was officially established (Tomé-Açu 2007).

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Batistella, M., Bolfe, É.L., Moran, E.F. (2013). Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu: An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon. In: Brondízio, E., Moran, E. (eds) Human-Environment Interactions. Human-Environment Interactions, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4780-7_14

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