ISBN:
9780415746038
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1057 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change : Indigenous People, Agriculture and Forest Conservation
DDC:
631.5/818
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for the growing of crops for a few years, and then moving on to new sites, leaving the earlier ground fallow to regain its soil fertility. This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Some critics have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Quick geographic reference for the book's chapters; 1. Introduction; A. Overview chapters: The context in which this book was prepared; (i) A backwards glance, over our shoulders . . .; 1. The view of swidden agriculture by the early naturalists Linnaeus and Wallace; 2. Shifting cultivators and the landscape: An essay through time; 3. Swiddens and fallows: Reflections on the global and local values of 'slash and burn' ; 4. Agroforestry pathways revisited: Voices from the past
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5. Shifting agriculture and its changes in Yunnan Province, China6. Swiddeners at the end of the frontier: Fifty years of globalization in Northern Thailand, 1963-2013 ; (ii) Looking towards the future . . .; 7. The future of swidden cultivation; 8. Shifting agriculture and fallow management options: Where do we stand?; 9. Chena cultivation in Sri Lanka: Prospects for agroforestry interventions; 10. Learning from migratory agriculture around the world to improve both swidden and modern agriculture in Southeast Asia
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11. Learning to cope with rapid change: Evergreen agriculture transformations and insights between Africa and Asia2. Is shifting cultivation really the 'bogeyman' of climate change and biodiversity loss?; A. Shifting cultivation in an era of climate change; 12. Swidden transitions in an era of climate-change debate; 13. Climate change: Adaptation, mitigation and transformations of swidden landscapes: Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?; 14. Best REDD scenario: Reducing climate change in alliance with swidden communities and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia
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15. Earning carbon credits through fallow management on lands affected by shifting cultivation in northeast India16. Formal and indigenous forest-management systems in Central Vietnam: Implications and challenges for REDD+ ; 17. Changing strategies of shifting cultivators to match a changing climate; 18. Fallows and flooding: A case study on the potential contribution of fallows to flood mitigation; 19. Dynamics of an island agroecosystem: Where to now?; B. Is shifting cultivation friend or foe to biodiversity?
Description / Table of Contents:
20. Second thoughts on secondary forests: Can swidden cultivation be compatible with conservation?21. Biodiversity and swidden agroecosystems: An analysis and some implications; 22. Shifting cultivators, curators of forests and conservators of biodiversity: The Dayak of East Kalimantan, Indonesia; 23. Fallow-management practices among the Tangkhuls of Manipur: Safeguarding provisioning and regulatory services from shifting-cultivation fallows; 24. Some lesser known facts about jhum in Nagaland, northeast India
Description / Table of Contents:
25. Plant genetic diversity in farming systems and poverty alleviation in Vietnam's northern mountain region
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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