Shifting Cultivation In India

Author : Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Saradindu Bose,Anthropological Survey of India
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UOM:39015028931510

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Shifting Cultivation in India by Saradindu Bose,Anthropological Survey of India Pdf

Contributed papers of a project initiated by the Anthropological Survey of India in 1976.

Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8170247438

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Shifting Cultivation by Lalit Kumar Jha Pdf

Author : B. P. Maithani
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8183240291

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

Author : Sachchidananda
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 8170220408

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Shifting Cultivation in India by Sachchidananda Pdf

Author : Dhirendra Narayan Majumdar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990*
Category : Shifting cultivation
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059216618

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Shifting Cultivation in North-east India by Dhirendra Narayan Majumdar Pdf

Author : Malcolm F. Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317750185

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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 : Tomo Riba
Publisher : Rubi Enterprise
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Joseph Earle Spencer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Lori Ann Thrupp,Susanne Hecht,John O. Browder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121767029

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The Diversity and Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation by Lori Ann Thrupp,Susanne Hecht,John O. Browder Pdf

Author : P. S. Ramakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015070125219

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Shifting Agriculture and Sustainable Development of North-Eastern India by P. S. Ramakrishnan Pdf

Author : Jonali Devi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 9351711765

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Shifting Cultivation by Jonali Devi Pdf

Author : Debojyoti Das
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783087761

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The Politics of Swidden farming by Debojyoti Das Pdf

The Politics of Swidden Farming offers a new explanation for the changes taking place in swidden farming practised in the highlands of eastern India through an ethnographic case study. The book traces the story of agroecological change and state intervention to colonial times, and helps understand contemporary agrarian change by contextualizing farming not just in terms of the science and technology of agriculture or conservation and biodiversity but also in terms of technologies of rule. The Politics of Swidden Farming adds a new dimension to the underdeveloped literature on shifting cultivation in South Asia by focusing on the social ecology of farming and agrarian change in the hills. It provides a comparative viewpoint to state-centred and donor-driven development in the frontier region by bringing in different actors and institutions that become the actants and agents of social change.

Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 55,6 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