Fragile Lands of Latin America Strategies for ... - PART - USAID

Index
Ubu~u, 117
Ucayali River, 79, 80, 91, 104
Ucubba. See Virola
Uhl, C., 87, 90, 92
Ultisols, 87, 90, 169
Umari, 84, 87, 108, 113(table)
United States, 151, 216, 222
Universidad Cat6lica (Quito), 144
Unused land, 185
Uruguay, 12
U.S. Soil Conservation Service, 222
Usufruct, 154, 236, 256
VanSant, J., 40
Varzea, 103, 114
baixa, 117
Vasey, D.E., 92
Vatairea sp., 134
Vegetables, 83(table), 84
Vegetative barriers, 32
Vasquez, A., 66
Venezuela
Indians, 62
manioc production, 90
pasture, 64
savanna, lqillus.)
See also Amazonian rain forests
Veracruz (Mexico), 244
Vicia faba L. See Broad beans
Vines, 93, 135
Virola, 117
Virola spp. See Cumala seeds
Virola surinamensis. See Virola
Vitamin C, 65
Wage labor, 76, 81, 84, 158, 193
Waqtanas. See Clod buster
Wari, 214
Waru waru. See Raised field fanning
Water buffaloes, 94, 96, 135
Water control, 32, 35, 51, 186, 234, 257
Waterlogging, 2 1 7
Watershed, 198, 241
Water supplies, 2, 23, 52, 215, 224, 252.
See also Irrigation
Water transfer, 262
Waterways, 32
Weed control, 81, 82, 85, 86(table), 105,
107, 108, 109, 135, 170(table), 186,
188(illus.)
costs, 166, 192
Weinstein, Barbara, 153
Western Europe, 151
Wetlands, 13(table), 18(fig.), 2 1 (table), 22,
23, 141, 244
Wheat, 215, 218(table), 243
Wildlife production reserve. See
Cuyabeno Wildlife Production
Reserve
Wilken, Gene C., 4
Williams, L.S., 224
Willingness to pay (WTP) values, 197
Wood, 66(table), 67, 71, 122, 130, 131
cooperative, 131, 135
income from, 124(fig.)
shortage, 280
World Bank, 25, 152, 160
World Wildlife Fund-U.S., 146
WTP. See Willingness to pay values
Xapuri (Acre, Brazil), 150, 153, 154, 155
Xingu River, 65
Yami tribesmen, 175
Yams, 171, 172
Yanachaga-ChemillCn National Park
(Peru), 131
Yanachaga range (Andes), 13 1
Yanesha Indians. See Amuesha Indians
Yarina palm, 80, 100(table), 113(table),
fronds, 82
Yurimaguas (Peru), 168- 171
Zapote, 78, 113(table), 274
Zinc, 183
Zoocriaderos, 146