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Table 1-3. Agroecological areas / types of production in Latin America and the Caribbean. Source: Dixon et al., 2001

Agroecological
areas/ Types of
production
Countries or regions with
these types of production or
ecosystems
Total
area
(million
ha)
Cropped
area
(% of
region)
Population
(millions)
Agricultural
population
(% of region)
Main subsistence
forms
Prevalence of
poverty
1. Irrigated North of Mexico, coast and
internal valleys of Peru and
Chile, Argentina
200
3.7
11
9
 Horticulture, fruit,
cattle		 Low-moderate
2. Forest based Amazon River basin (Brazil,
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador,
Colombia, Venezuela,
Surinam and Guyana) and
forested zones of Mexico
and Central America
600
1.0
11
9
 Subsistence, cattle
ranching		 Low-moderate
3. Coastal
plantation and
mixed		 Central America, Mexico,
the Caribbean and northeast
coast and occidental area of
South America
186
10.7
20
17
 Export crops/tree
crops, fishing,
tubers, tourism		 Highly variable
4. Intensive mixed Central region of Brazil
81
16.0
10
8
 Coffee, horticulture,
fruit, off-farm work		 Low
5. Mixed cereals
and livestock		 South of Brazil, north of
Uruguay
100
18.0
7
6
 Rice and livestock Low-moderate
6. Moist temperate
and mixed forest		 Coastal area of the center
of Chile
13
12.3
<1
1
 Dairy, livestock,
cereals, forestry and
tourism		 Low
7. Maize-beans Mexico and Central America
65
9.2
<11
10
 Maize, beans,
coffee, horticulture
and employment
outside the farm		 Extensive and
severe
8. Intensive
highlands and
mixed
(Northern Andes)		 Andean region of Colombia,
Ecuador and Venezuela
43
10.2
4
3
 Vegetables, maize,
coffee, cattle/pigs,
cereals, potatoes,
off-farm work		 Low-generalized
(smallholders)
9. Extensive mixed
(Cerrados and
Llanos)		 Southeast of Amazonia in
Brazil and Bolivia, north of
Amazonia in Venezuela and
Guyana
230
13.5
10
9
 Livestock, oilseeds,
grains, coffee		 Low-moderate
(small producers
and landless)
10. Temperate
mixed
(Pampas)		 East -central region of
Argentina and part of
Uruguay
100
20.0
7
6
 Livestock, wheat,
soybean		 Low
11. Dryland mixed North oriental coast of Brazil
and the Yucatan Peninsula
of Mexico
130
13.8
10
9
 Livestock, maize,
cassava, wage
labor, seasonal
migration		 Extensive,
especially
drought-induced
12. Extensive
dryland and mixed
(Gran Chaco)		 Central region of Argentina,
north of Paraguay
70
11
<2
<2
 Livestock, cotton,
subsistence crops		 Moderate
13. High altitude
mixed (Central
Andes)		 East of Bolivia
120
1.1
>7
>7
 Tubers, sheep,
grains, llamas,
horticulture, offfarm
work		 Extensive and
severe
14. Pastoral Andean region of Peru and
Bolivia
67
-
<1
<1
 Cattle and sheep Low-moderate
15. Sparse (forest) Chile and Argentina
60
<0.5
<4
3
 Sheep, cattle,
silviculture and
tourism		 low

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