Ilus.; 23 ref. Sum. (En)

In Amazonian Ecuador, studies are being realized to intensify fallow periods by grazing Red Afro-Colombian x Barbados Black Belly sheep on Desmodium ovalifolium under Inga edulis. The specific approach represents an innovative effort to address the complex problems associated with the pernicious use of less fertile lands by small-scale farmers and graziers in the humid tropics. The technologies developed are closely compatible with traditional sociocultural patterns. For example, shifting cultivators are encouraged to plant contour strips of legume fuelwood trees in their cassava fields. With the cassava harvest, legume cover forage is planted between the fuelwood trees, to be grazed later by sheep.