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http://permaculturenews.org/2013/10/15/regaining-sustainable-agriculture-practices-amazon-peru/


"The Matsés indigenous people are master farmers, and it seems strange to even suggest farming ideas to people who live almost entirely off the land. The problem is that their traditional small-scale swidden (slash-and-burn) approaches to farming, once superbly adapted for a semi-nomadic lifestyle, do not translate to newer, larger fixed settlements."

"To provide a proven alternative, Acaté Amazon Conservation has started a permaculture farm in the village of Estirón where our field coordinator, Dr. David Fleck, lives. Building and integrating regenerative systems into the Matsés agricultural practices will not only benefit them with higher yields and more nutritious food, but will also curtail rainforest deforestation, because the land will be able to continuously produce food rather than be depleted and abandoned. It is a model that can be scaled with proper design, and applied to other threatened areas of the Amazon."

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