Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 343 lower than those in the degraded state. This is the right-hand side of Figure 15.1, line a. I ...

344 Agricultural Revolutions and Change services are lost. More often, however, there is no single ‘best bet’, but instead there ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 345 and São Paulo–Rio Branco in Brazil, the Carretera Marginal de la Selva and the Federico Basad ...

346 Agricultural Revolutions and Change systems (Houghton et al, 2000). Much data have been gathered on the effects of tropical ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 347 Goal, hypothesis and objectives The overall goals of the ASB consortium are to help reduce th ...

348 Agricultural Revolutions and Change approach combining biophysical and behavioural sciences, the participation of diverse ki ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 349 Diverse institutions In 2001 the ASB consortium was composed of seven national agricultural r ...

350 Agricultural Revolutions and Change A third area in Latin America represents the humid and subhumid forests of the Atlantic ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 351 mapping procedure developed by Carpenter et al (1993) was used to generate the map shown in F ...

352 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Characterizing sites The first phase of ASB research involved characterizing the benchma ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 353 Table 15.1 Selected site characterization parameters for the ASB benchmark areas Characteriza ...

354 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Table 15.2 Meta–land-use systems and candidate best-bet alternative systems (with some w ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 355 Forests Undisturbed or so-called primary forests are rare in and around the benchmark sites. ...

356 Agricultural Revolutions and Change agroforests occur in North Thailand, where the naturally occurring tea trees are left wh ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 357 (Cairns and Garrity, 1999). Improved fallows using leguminous cover crops kept in the field f ...

358 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Quantifying environmental, agronomic and socioeconomic parameters Climate change Tropica ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 359 is time-consuming and difficult, necessitating expertise in tropical plant identifica- tion a ...

360 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Methods to assess these objectives, their social and institutional needs, and the abilit ...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn 361 Table 15.3 ASB matrix comparing the environmental, agronomic, socioeconomic and policy aspect ...

362 Agricultural Revolutions and Change agroforests and small-scale oil palm plantations. These are the best-bet alternatives fo ...