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The indigenous farmers of the Sierra of Ecuador have not always been a “marginal” group. Prior to the Inca and Spanish conquests, they had access to the best land and controlled the key cultural institutions. They used sophisticated systems of raised-field and canal irrigation agriculture to support populations locally more dense than those in existence today.

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Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T. (1988). Conclusions and Implications for Policies of Rural Development. In: Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T. (eds) The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2965-4_23

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