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Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics

Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas.

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  • "Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas."
  • "Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas."@en
  • "The present book attempts to document and systematize findings on shifting cultivation on a pan-tropical basis, drawing on major findings in the literature in the last five decades. The current book examines the processes of secondary succession and soil fertility restoration under bush fallow within an integrative framework, and uses the core-periphery analogy to analyse the process and stages of secondary vegetation development and soil fertility restoration under bush fallow. The book is divided into 10 chapters. The first chapter defines the tropics, and chapter 2 defines shifting cultivation and presents the basic features and types of shifting cultivation. The soil dynamics during cultivation and fallow period are discussed in chapters 3 and 4, respectively. The dynamics of fallow vegetation are presented in chapter 5, and the interrelationships between fallow soil and vegetation are covered in chapter 6. Chapter 7 is focused on the ecological succession theory and models, while chapter 8 is focused on the theory and models of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow. The intensification of shifting cultivation is discussed in chapter 9. The final chapter deals with alternative farming systems and the future of shifting cultivation."

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