Shifting cultivation and environmental change : indigenous people, agriculture and forest conservation / edited by Malcolm F. Cairns.

"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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors:	Cairns, Malcolm (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Subjects:	Agriculture > Environmental aspects. Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects. Forest conservation. Indigenous peoples.