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| Almekinders, Conny J. M.; Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University; conny.almekinders@wur.nl; Stomph, Tjeerd-Jan; Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University; tjeerdjan.stomph@wur.nl; Struik, Paul C.; Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University; paul.struik@wur.nl. |
| We evaluated farmers’ rationales to understand their decision making in relation to the use of fertile anthropogenic soils, i.e., Amazonian dark earths (ADE), and for dealing with changes in shifting cultivation in Central Amazonia. We analyzed qualitative information from 196 interviews with farmers in 21 riverine villages along the Madeira River. In order to decide about crop management options to attain their livelihood objectives, farmers rely on an integrated and dynamic understanding of their biophysical and social environment. Farmers associate fallow development with higher crop yields and lower weed pressure, but ADE is always associated with high yields and high weeding requirements. Amazonian dark earths are also seen as an opportunity... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Amazonia; Amazonian dark earths; Decision making; Intensification; Slash and burn; Swidden cultivation; Terra preta. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Robichaud, William G; Biodiversity Research Centre, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia; williamrobichaud@yahoo.com; Sinclair, Anthony R. E.; Biodiversity Research Centre, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia; sinclair@zoology.ubc.ca; Odarkor-Lanquaye, Naa; Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia; naalanquaye@hotmail.com; Klinkenberg, Brian; Department of Geography, University of British Columbia; brian@geog.ubc.ca. |
| Swidden agriculture, or shifting cultivation, is variously viewed as a great environmental threat or a sustainable system of land use. In Laos, swidden has long been considered the primary driver of forest loss nationwide, but the assessment is based exclusively on studies from the north of country, where deforestation is most severe. National policies to control swidden have percolated down to management of one of the largest nature reserves in the region, Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area (NNT NPA) in the Annamite Mountains of central Laos. In NNT NPA, swidden’s presumed unsustainability and deleterious impact on forest cover is an untested assumption. We tested it by methods of historical ecology, tracing the patterns of NNT’s... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Annamite Mountains; Brou; Cuora trifasciata; Dalbergia; Deforestation; Historical ecology; Lao PDR; Manis; Nakai-Nam Theun; Nam Theun 2; Pangolin; Pseudorxy nghetinhensis; Saola; Sek; Shifting cultivation; Slash and burn; Sustainable agriculture; Swidden agriculture; Vietic. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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| Schuck, Eric C.; Nganje, William E.; Yantio, Debazou; Aquach, Emmanuel. |
| Education can play a critical role in moving farmers in developing countries away from environmentally harmful slash and burn agriculture. The present research examines the extent to which extension education can promote adoption of cropping systems other than slash and burn. Choice of cropping system by farmers in Cameroon, whether slash and burn, multiple crops, or mono-cropping, is modeled as a function of farm size, farmer educational level, and visits by extension personnel. Results indicate that higher visitation rates by extension personnel reduce not only the likelihood of farmers choosing slash and burn agriculture, but also promotes movement into mono-cropping. Since mono-cropping represents a move toward export-oriented agriculture in... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Slash and burn; Production technology; Economic development; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23587 |
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| Melo,Vander Freitas; Orrutéa,Alessandro Góis; Motta,Antônio Carlos Vargas; Testoni,Samara Alves. |
| ABSTRACT Many Amazonian farmers use the slash-and-burn method rather than fertilization for crop production. The aim of the present study was to evaluate changes in the morphological, physical, and chemical properties of naturally fertile Inceptisols after conversion from native forest to different uses in southern Amazonia, Brazil. Land covered by dense native forest (NF) was split into four areas of 1.0 ha each. Three areas were slashed and burned and then cultivated for 11 years with coffee (CO), secondary forest (SF), and pasture (PA). Four soil profiles were sampled in each treatment (four uses × four replicates). The mean value distribution of each physical and chemical analysis was determined for different depths, and standard error bars were placed... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Secondary forest; Coffee; Pasture; Slash and burn; Ash effect. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832017000100523 |
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