Author: Nigel D. Turvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Afforestation and Rehabilitation of Imperata Grasslands in Southeast Asia
Author: Nigel D. Turvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Afforestation and Rehabilitation of Imperata Grasslands in Southeast Asia
Author: Nigel D. Turvey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461933083
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461933083
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Imperata Grassland Rehabilitation Using Agroforestry and Assisted Natural Regeneration
Author: Kathleen S. Friday
Publisher: World Agroforestry Centre
ISBN: 9799553709
Category : Agroforestry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: World Agroforestry Centre
ISBN: 9799553709
Category : Agroforestry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests in Asia
Author: Ajit Kumar Banerjee
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Voices from the Forest
Author: Malcolm Cairns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113652228X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113652228X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
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.
Sustainable Farm Forestry in the Tropics
Author: Stephen Robert Harrison
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781782543848
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
'The text is valuable in that it describes tropical small-scale farm forestry and the complex interrelationships between social, economic, and biological issues quite well . . . For readers interested in tropical forestry in a developed nation, the book is a detailed and excellent source of information.' - Matthew Pelkki, Natural Resources Journal There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781782543848
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
'The text is valuable in that it describes tropical small-scale farm forestry and the complex interrelationships between social, economic, and biological issues quite well . . . For readers interested in tropical forestry in a developed nation, the book is a detailed and excellent source of information.' - Matthew Pelkki, Natural Resources Journal There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.
Southeast Asian Grasslands
Author: Michael Dove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Info FORSPA
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Tropical Forest Update
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Afforestation of Imperata Grasslands in Indonesia
Author: D Turvey Nigel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461933137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461933137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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