Download Full eBooks in PDF
Shifting Cultivation In Lao Pdr Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Shifting Cultivation In Lao Pdr book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843691013
Author : Stephen Bass,Elaine Morrison
Publisher : IIED
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786391797
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 : Bounthong Bouahom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MSU:31293029050931
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN : UOM:39015041129043
Author : Vanthong Phengvichith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : OCLC:44043853
Author : W. Roder
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cropping systems
ISBN : 9789712201530
Author : Malcolm F. Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317750185
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 : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786391797
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 : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : UOM:39015042829047
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Rural development
ISBN : UCBK:C054976050
Author : Michael B. Dwyer,Micah Ingalls
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504826
To date, REDD+ projects in Laos have made relatively conservative choices on driver engagement, focusing on smallholder-related drivers like shifting cultivation and small-scale agricultural expansion, to the exclusion of drivers like agro-industrial concessions, mining concessions and energy and transportation infrastructure. While these choices have been based on calculated decisions made in the context of project areas, they have created a pair of challenges that REDD+ practitioners must currently confront. The first is lost opportunity. By not engaging industrial drivers of forest loss, REDD+ misses an important chance to engage with high level economic decision making. This has implications not only for climate change mitigation, but more importantly for efforts to make Laos’s current trajectory of natural resource-intensive development more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. The second challenge is more immediate. Due to the political-economic circumstances under which forest loss occurs, there is a significant gap between loss that is planned and loss that can be accounted for under REDD’s “national circumstance” allowances for planned deforestation. This means that REDD’s positive impacts on mitigating forest loss, to the extent that they occur, may be swamped by planned but unaccountable forest loss, and thus difficult or impossible to verify. Thinking bigger on issues from driver engagement to spatial planning and concession regulation to land tenure and rural livelihood possibilities thus presents not only a series of opportunities, but a series of imperatives.
Author : Pierret, A.,de Rouw, A.,Valentin, C.,Noble, Andrew,Suhardiman, Diana,Drechsel, Pay,Chaplot, V.
Publisher : Marseille, France: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpment (IRD) Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290907466
Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136522284
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices 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. Environmentalists 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, a growing body of evidence indicates 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. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
Author : Terry Grandstaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Agricultura
ISBN : UOM:39015018062854
