Growth of squatter settlements in Pucallpa and other cities as distant as Lima + growth of small urban centers >> increased demand for inexpensive construction materials >> Rural smallholder farmers in Peruvian Amazonia have shifted their emphasis from commercial crop production to a combination of smaller-scale subsistence agriculture and management of forest products, especially of fast-growing timbers >> decline in the agricultural sector and the loss of an important source of income for smallholder (jan 6, 1980 – jan 6, 1990)
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jan 6, 1980
jan 6, 1990
~ 10 years
