Shifting Cultivation in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam
Author : Stephen Bass
Publisher : IIED
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
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Author : Stephen Bass
Publisher : IIED
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
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Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1786391791
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 : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 1843690985
Author : Malcolm F. Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317750187
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 : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 1995
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ISBN : 1843691019
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Publisher : IIED
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
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Author : Dinh Sam Do
Publisher : IIED
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : 1843690993
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Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
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Author : K. G. Saxena
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Agricultural conservation
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Contributed papers presented at two international conferences jointly organized by United Nations University, Tokyo, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and National Institute of Rural Development's North-East Regional Centre at Guwahati, India, in October 2005 and September 2006; with reference to India and Southeast Asia.
Author : Rob Cramb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811509980
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories of rice farmers within and between different regions of the Lower Mekong, (b) explore the value chains linking rice farmers with new technologies and input and output markets within and across national borders, and (c) understand the changing role of government policies in facilitating the on-going evolution of commercial rice farming. An introductory section places the research in geographical and historical context. Four major sections deal in turn with studies of rice farming, value chains, and policies in Northeast Thailand, Central Laos, Southeastern Cambodia, and the Mekong Delta. The final section examines the implications for rice policy in the region as a whole.