Add to ORKGAre there real alternatives to slash-and-burn in the tropical uplands? If alternative technologies exist, where are they applied, for how long, and by whom? Are they local, or do they have a wide implementation? How do farmers and governments respond to concerns about upland environment degradation and its negative impact on yields, production, and agricultural revenues? What can be learned from a large and diversified country such as Indonesia? These questions represent the starting point of this book. Over the years they have also provoked various responses from experts and researchers. Among these responses emerge three different perspectives on slash-and-burn and its alternatives. The first objective of this book is to record case studi...
This is a report of a collaborative research project, 'Improving smallholder farming systems in Impe...
The search for alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture and slash-and-burn as a land clearing meth...
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on in-troducing ben...
The development of upland agriculture has become an increasingly important policy objective in Indon...
Indonesia still has large forest areas, but they are rapidly being converted to other land uses. Tra...
The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia-as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia-has experience...
Despite difficulties encountered by upland farmers, a Green Revolution, perhaps even a "double Green...
The key hypotheses underlying ASB research in Indonesia has been intensifying land use as an alterna...
"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienc...
"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienc...
This chapter sets out to show how, on the plains of Sumatra and Kalimantan, fallow management has pr...
uplands Abstract. Shifting cultivation continues as the economic mainstay of upland communities in m...
The search for alternatives to slash-and-bum agriculture and slash-and-bum as a land clearing method...
This study covered about 40 locations that represent a wide range of Indonesia's upland economies an...
In almost all forms of agriculture and farming practice, land clearing is the initial step. In Indon...
This is a report of a collaborative research project, 'Improving smallholder farming systems in Impe...
The search for alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture and slash-and-burn as a land clearing meth...
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on in-troducing ben...
The development of upland agriculture has become an increasingly important policy objective in Indon...
Indonesia still has large forest areas, but they are rapidly being converted to other land uses. Tra...
The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia-as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia-has experience...
Despite difficulties encountered by upland farmers, a Green Revolution, perhaps even a "double Green...
The key hypotheses underlying ASB research in Indonesia has been intensifying land use as an alterna...
"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienc...
"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienc...
This chapter sets out to show how, on the plains of Sumatra and Kalimantan, fallow management has pr...
uplands Abstract. Shifting cultivation continues as the economic mainstay of upland communities in m...
The search for alternatives to slash-and-bum agriculture and slash-and-bum as a land clearing method...
This study covered about 40 locations that represent a wide range of Indonesia's upland economies an...
In almost all forms of agriculture and farming practice, land clearing is the initial step. In Indon...
This is a report of a collaborative research project, 'Improving smallholder farming systems in Impe...
The search for alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture and slash-and-burn as a land clearing meth...
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on in-troducing ben...