资源 标记: Shifting Cultivation
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1966-01-01 This study is wholly devoted to an examination of this one element of tropical agriculture in southeastern Asia and in a part of the island world of the southwest Pacific. The present analysis attempts to bring together the work of many scholars in many disciplines using as background...
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1982-01-12 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
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Shifting Cultivators: Local Technical Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Humid Tropics
This forestry note will examine the local technical knowledge (LTK) of the traditional swiddener and how it is utilized for natural resource management in the humid tropics. Starting with a review of the environment of the humid tropics and the problems of natural resource management in the... -
2015-01-01 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 asequel to the...
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1987-01-01 This book is an in-depth analysis of the problems faced by the native peoples of Sarawak, most of whom live in longhouse communities in Borneo's tropical forests. It describes the traditional social and economic system of swidden agriculture, and how their forest resources and way of life are...
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The purpose of this symposium was to bring to the attention of the world's soil scientists the impact slash-and-burn agriculture has on the global environment and rural inhabitants and to determine, through the analysis of available information presented by the authors, the contribution soil...
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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.
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The present set of papers is the result of an expert consulation on the subject of improving traditional farming systems of the tropics. The object of the meeint was to provide guidelines for future activities and policy decisions.
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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...
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关键资源 2007-05-25 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...