Shifting Cultivation

Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786391797

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Shifting Cultivation Policies by Malcolm Cairns Pdf

Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future. This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. The addendum chapters can be found at: www.cabi.org/openresources/91797

Author : Lalit Kumar Jha
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8170247438

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Shifting Cultivation by Lalit Kumar Jha Pdf

Author : Sachchidananda
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 8170220408

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Shifting Cultivation in India by Sachchidananda Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 925102121X

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Improved Production Systems as an Alternative to Shifting Cultivation by Anonim Pdf

Eight papers from an informal meeting, dealing with examples from Asia, Africa and Latin-America

Author : Albert O. Aweto
Publisher : CABI
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780640433

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Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics by Albert O. Aweto Pdf

Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas.

Author : B. P. Maithani
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8183240291

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Shifting Cultivation in North-East India by B. P. Maithani Pdf

Author : Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030366025

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Economic and Ecological Implications of Shifting Cultivation in Mizoram, India by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati Pdf

This book presents the first empirically tested, comprehensive study on shifting cultivation in Mizoram. Shifting cultivation is a unique and centuries-old practice carried out by the people of Mizoram in Northeast India. Today, it is a non-economic activity as it does not produce sufficient crops, and as a result, the area under shifting cultivation is decreasing. Such cultivation leads to the burning and degradation of vast areas of forestland and therefore has adverse impacts on the floral and faunal resources. This book is a valuable resource for government workers, policymakers, academics, farmers and those who are directly or indirectly associated with practical farming, or with framing and implementing policies. It is equally important to master’s and Ph.D. students of geography, resource management, development, and environmental studies who are involved in research and development.

Author : Stephen Bass,Elaine Morrison
Publisher : IIED
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shifting Cultivation in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam by Stephen Bass,Elaine Morrison Pdf

Author : Joseph Earle Spencer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520035178

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Shifting Cultivation in Southeastern Asia by Joseph Earle Spencer Pdf

Distribution and overall structure. Relationships to physical environment. Relationships to cultural environment. Land systems and their territorial administration. Crops, Crop systems, and complementary Economies. Technologies, tools, and specific typologies.

Author : Niranjan Roy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031549274

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Climate Change, Shifting Cultivation and Livelihood Vulnerabilities in India by Niranjan Roy Pdf

Author : Malcolm F. Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317750192

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Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change by Malcolm F. Cairns Pdf

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 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, the book shows that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment and local communities. The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia, and presents over 50 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology. It is a sequel to the much praised "Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming" (RFF Press, 2007), but all chapters are completely new and there is a greater emphasis on the contemporary challenges of climate change and biodiversity conservation.

Author : Arthur Hugh Bunting,Edward Bunting
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251020922

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The Future of Shifting Cultivation in Africa and the Task of Universities by Arthur Hugh Bunting,Edward Bunting Pdf

Sponsored by FAO and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IITA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Resource Management by West African Farmers and the Economics of Shifting Cultivation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tomo Riba
Publisher : Rubi Enterprise
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
ISBN : 9789843373045

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Shifting Cultivation and Tribal Culture of Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India by Tomo Riba Pdf

The book on ‘Shifting Cultivation and Tribal Culture of Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India’ has been written mainly to show how the traditional life of Tribal people of state of Arunachal Pradesh, India are very much attached to shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation is more a culture than agriculture to these people. The beliefs and practices, art and crafts, food habit, the technique of hunting and fishing, traditional healing, food habits and even the sentiments and emotions of the people are either directly or indirectly related to shifting cultivation. The book has also mentioned how centuries of practicing same system has helped these people to learn many secret of nature, which is termed as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Book has mentioned how, many scholars have misconception about shifting cultivation without knowing much about it. Farmers not only cut the trees, but also grow crops and domesticate animals. They are the maintainers of crop diversities as they grow more than 30 crops. They do not use any chemical fertilizers and pesticides to increase the productivity. It has also mentioned that shifting cultivation is practiced in the forest. In other way it can be said, shifting cultivation is there, so is the forest. They do not remove the forest permanently like agro-forestry and many other commercial farming. They fallow the forest to allow to regenerate. Secondary forest during fallow period can support more organisms due large plant diversity. The whole book has been divided into seven chapters comprised of Introduction, Origin of farmers and farming, Beliefs and Practices, General Life of Farmers, Different Stages of Shifting Cultivation, Shifting Cultivation and Allied Activities and Conclusion. The meaning of local terms has been given in the glossary at the end and instruction to pronounce local words is given in the front. The book is one way of documentation of culture of shifting cultivators of Tribal ethnic groups of Arunachal Pradesh India. One day shifting will meet its natural death. The book would be of immense importance to researchers and people who had less exposure to their own society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 8172111843

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Sustainable Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

This book covers some of the crucial issues of sustainability in agriculture, which are presented in five sections viz., Concepts and Status, Sustainable Technologies in Crop Production & Management, Sustainability of Crops in Agro-ecosystems, Agro-forestry, and Spatial Informatics in Sustainable Agriculture. The sub-themes covered in the papers are: land use planning, sustainable livelihood, shifting cultivation, wetlands, weed management, technologies in crop production, traditional knowledge and management of agriculture, sustainability of crops in different agro-ecosystems, methods and policies, digital opportunities; use of remote sensing and GIS in agro-ecological zoning and agricultural resources information technology. The Contributions by scientists, planners, technocrats, researchers and practitioners, address both the conceptual and policy related issues with important empirical research findings.