Risorse Tagged: Slash And Burn

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  1. Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Working Group on Economic and Social indicators: Report on Methods for the ASB Best Bet Matrix

    This report is one of a series detailing results from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Agriculture Research Programme which seeks to reconcile agricultural production and development with mitigation of the adverse local and global environmental effects of deforestation.
    Shifting cultivation Agroforestry Land Use Africa Slash-and-Burn

  2. FM 2005 LEISA Magazine Vol 21 #2

    20/06/2005 Transforming the land More than profit: Horta e Arte Organic coffee Holding on to the family farm An alternative to slash-and-burn Supporting the local economy Microcredit, poverty and the environment Organizing access to local seeds in a context of crisis Community seed banks Recovering...
    Community Seed Banks Coffee Family Farm Biodiversity Seed Storage Slash-and-Burn Termites

  3. FM 2015 Farming Matters Vol 31 #1

    20/03/2015 Building up the carbon in farm soils From slash and burn to 'slash and mulch' Keeping composting simple Traditional fallows support resilient farming on semi-arid sandy soils "Healthy soils give family farmers autonomy, resilience and long-term productivity" Healthy soils are essential for...
    Carbon Slash-and-Burn Composting Soil Management Soil Quality

  4. Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable Methods for Tropical Agriculture

    Key Resource 15/12/1997 Slash/mulch systems, ancient agricultural practices still widely used today, are often overlooked by farmers or mistaken for slash-and-burn systems; however, slash/mulch systems, in which vegetation is cut and mulched on site rather than being discarded or burned, are far more beneficial than are...
    Tropical Farming Tropical Agriculture Slash-and-Burn

  5. Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn: Procedural Guidelines for Characterization

    01/01/2000 This report is the culmination of the participatory approach to guideline development, in keeping with the basic, integrated philosophy of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn programme. 33 pages, tables
    Slash-and-Burn Agriculture-Kenya

  6. Shifting Cultivation in Sarawak: A Review

    12/01/1982 This technical paper #8, based on a workshop, takes a detailed look at shifitng cultivation practices in Sarawak with possible long and short term solutions to problems discussed. 166 pages, tables
    Slash-and-Burn Shifting cultivation Malaysia

  7. Alternatives to slash-and-burn in Indonesia: Summary report & synthesis of phase II

    01/01/1998 The key hypothesis underlying Phase II of the ASB research project in Indonesia can be summarized as: Intensifying land use as an alternative to slash-and-burn simultaneously can reduce deforestation and reduce poverty. 139 pages, illustrated, tables
    Deforestation Slash-and-Burn

  8. Carbon sequestration and trace gas emissions in slash-and-burn and alternative land uses in the humid tropics

    01/11/2000 The overall objectives of the Climate Change working group of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme (ASB) were to determine those land use systems that sequester more carbon and reduce trace gas emissions . The research consisted of three activities: a) collect strategic information on...
    Deforestation Slash-and-Burn

  9. Shifting Cultivation: A New Old Paradigm for Managing Tropical Forests

    Abstract, BioScience, 2000 Shifting cultivation, or swidden farming, is often held to be the principle driving force for deforestation in tropical Asia (Myers 1993). National governments in Southeast Asia, notably in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, have been inclined to blame...
    Deforestation Shifting cultivation Slash-and-Burn Vietnam Asia