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Author : Peter Hague Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Soil Under Shifting Cultivation written by Peter Hague Nye and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert O. Aweto
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780640439
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics written by Albert O. Aweto and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas.
Author : P. H. Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Soil Under Shifting Cultivation written by P. H. Nye and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of fallows and soils: The types of fallows; Secondary formations; The types of soils; Latosols; Basisols; The amounts of nutrients in the fallow and soil: Nutrient content of fallows; Moist evergreen-forest zone; Moist semi-deciduous-forest zone; Dry deciduous-forest zone; Deciduous-thicket zone; Nutrient content of soils; The nutrient cycle: Transfer of nutrients between soil and vegetation; Losses from and gains to the soil-vegetation system; The Restoration of fertility under the fallow: Soil organic matter; The build-up of total and exchangeable nutrients in the topsoil; The effect of clearing and burning: The decline in fertility under cropping: Pests and diseases; Weeds; Physical conditions in the soil; Erosion; The nutrient status of the soil;The evidence of fertilizer trials; The evidence of soil analyses; Reasons for the decline in nutrient levels; Nutrient losses in relation to soil reserves; Changes in the soil fauna and flora; Soil fertility under native practice.
Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1786391791
Total Pages : 1115 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation Policies written by Malcolm Cairns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 1115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Malcolm F. Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317750187
Total Pages : 1405 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change written by Malcolm F. Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 1405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107176050
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics written by Pedro A. Sanchez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.
Author : B. P. Maithani
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788183240291
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation in North-East India written by B. P. Maithani and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Earle Spencer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520035171
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation in Southeastern Asia written by Joseph Earle Spencer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distribution and overall structure. Relationships to physical environment. Relationships to cultural environment. Land systems and their territorial administration. Crops, Crop systems, and complementary Economies. Technologies, tools, and specific typologies.
Author : Lalit Kumar Jha
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170247432
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation written by Lalit Kumar Jha and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. Kunstadter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824881974
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Farmers in the Forest written by Peter R. Kunstadter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers in the Forest, while using examples chiefly from northern Thailand, is concerned with complex problems found in all tropical countries. In these areas rapid population growth, increasing demands for food, and burgeoning international markets for forest products and other raw materials are associated with active competition for land and natural resources in upland areas. This book brings together studies by administrators, agronomists, anthropologists, forest ecologists, geographers and jurists, who describe a variety of swidden systems and their effect on soil, forest, society, and economy. They point to conflicts between traditional farming systems and modern legal and administrative constraints now being imposed, and they describe special and technological conditions that contribute to a marginal, stagnant upland economy, increasing socio-economic disparities with the lowlands, and the serious ecological consequences of these conditions. Several possible solutions are suggested to solve these problems.
