Agricultural Settlement and Land Use in Mountains - Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions - page 549

transition from a diverse array of subsistence crops to one that favors cash monocrops
occurs very quickly.
FIGURE 11.4 Intensive land use. Using a sickle to harvest wheat, Urubamba Province, Peru. (Photo
by S. F. Cunha.)
FIGURE 11.5 Intensive Landuse. A Kalasha farmer plows in the Hindu Kush of North-West Frontier
Province, Pakistan. (Photo by S. F. Cunha.)
Other factors influence the settlement patterns of mountain farmers. When people
rely on a restricted diet for cultural reasons, the ecological requirements of the crop