TY - JOUR
T1 - Rural transport in eastern Amazonia
T2 - Limitations, options, and opportunities
AU - Guimaraes, A. L.
AU - Uhl, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements -- We would like to thank David McGrath and Steven Stone for helping in conceptualizing the problem; Pervaze Sheikh for assisting with data analysis; Flfivio Figueiredo and Bill Moyer for help with the figures; Rui Rocha, Michael Collins, and Jeffrey Gerwing for providing comments on earlier versions of this paper; Jeffrey Gerwing and Collen Clancy for help with translation; and the Ford Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature for supporting this research.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In rural Amazonia farmers rely on a variety of conveyances for overland transport ranging from burros through horse-drawn carts and bicycles to motorized carts and trucks. We compared the costs of purchasing and operating these different conveyances and determined how transport mode, road quality, distance to market, and product value affect the profitability of farming in this region. We conclude by suggesting policy changes necessary to both increase the effectiveness of rural transport in regions of Amazonia where colonization has already occurred and slow encroachment into unoccupied areas.
AB - In rural Amazonia farmers rely on a variety of conveyances for overland transport ranging from burros through horse-drawn carts and bicycles to motorized carts and trucks. We compared the costs of purchasing and operating these different conveyances and determined how transport mode, road quality, distance to market, and product value affect the profitability of farming in this region. We conclude by suggesting policy changes necessary to both increase the effectiveness of rural transport in regions of Amazonia where colonization has already occurred and slow encroachment into unoccupied areas.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00019-3
DO - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00019-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031472126
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 13
SP - 429
EP - 440
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
IS - 4
ER -