Voices from the forest : integrating indigenous knowledge into sustainable upland farming / Malcolm Cairns, editor.

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 (...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors:	Cairns, Malcolm
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, ©2007.
Subjects:	Traditional farming. Shifting cultivation. Sustainable agriculture. Fallow lands. Ethnoecology. Forest degradation. Forest conservation.