permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

<http://www.pbase.com/jamato8/kam_peoples_indigenous_integrative_pisciculture_and_agriculture>

Kam Local Agriculture and Pisciculture **
Gaoxiu Village, Guangxi Province, China

An ethnographic, visual anthropological and natural history study.

The idea of raising fish around and in rice paddies is practiced in numerous parts of the world. This study looks at the 
methods that are employed by the Kam people of Gaoxiu Village in growing rice and maintaining different varieties of 
fish in the paddies and fishponds. Kam people also have a tradition of agroforestry and intercropping by clearing parts 
of the forest to allow for the growing of seasonal crops and tea trees that are used for tea tree oil. While one Kam 
community may invest more heavily in agroforestry and another more effort is put towards the agriculture and 
pisciculture both are traditional practices that are weighed more to one venture or the other often due to the terrain 
and or type of land available.
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Understanding the constraints that the span of time allotted for this study imposes as much as possible of the use of 
rice paddies, fish farming, local industry, daily life and interactions were visually recorded and documented.
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Much of the information contained here is primary data and was collected 
while doing this fieldwork.
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Made possible by grants from:
UNESCO-LINKS Beijing/Paris
UNDESA, through the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. New York

and contributions from:
Irene and Edwin Schaeffer
Randi and Fred Hirschmann, Hirschmann Photography
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Information and elaboration is added every day. All images will have 
accompanying explanations.
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This gallery is currently being worked on November 18, 2006 -
There will be considerable reorganization and editing of image explanations.
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Primary investigator: Dr. Amy Eisenberg

All images by John Amato