Cultivated and Fallow Land in the Highlands of Cañar (Ecuadorean South Andes): Effects of Farmer Emigration on an Agrarian Landscape

On the threshold of the 21st century, Ecuador entered the darkest economic period in the history of its republic, resulting in a vast migratory movement to foreign countries. In the high Andes valley of Cañar, the speed and extent of the movement seemed, in many ways, to be the precursory signs of a...

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Main Authors: Michel Vaillant, Marc Oswald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2019-04-01
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rga/5386

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