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Foreword.. Preface.. Quick geographic reference for the book's chapters.. 1: Introduction.. A. Overview chapters: The context in which this book was prepared.. (i A backwards glance, over our shoulders ... .. 1. The view of swidden agriculture by the early naturalists Linnaeus and Wallace.. 2. Shifting cultivators and the landscape: An essay through time.. 3. Swiddens and fallows: Reflections on the global and local values of 'slash and burn'.. 4. Agroforestry pathways revisited: Voices from the past.. 5. Shifting agriculture and its changes in Yunnan Province, China.. 6. Swiddeners at the end of the frontier: Fifty years of globalization in Northern Thailand, 1963-2013.. (ii Looking towards the future... .. 7. The future of swidden cultivation.. 8. Shifting agriculture and fallow management options: Where do we stand?.. 9. Chena cultivation in Sri Lanka: Prospects for agroforestry interventions.. 10. Learning from migratory agriculture around the world to improve both swidden and modern agriculture in Southeast Asia.. 11. Learning to cope with rapid change: Evergreen agriculture transformations and insights between Africa and Asia.. 2. Is shifting cultivation really the 'bogeyman' of climate change and biodiversity loss?.. A. Shifting cultivation in an era of climate change.. 12. Swidden transitions in an era of climate-change debate.. 13. Climate change: Adaptation, mitigation and transformations of swidden landscapes: Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?.. 14. Best REDD scenario: Reducing climate change in alliance with swidden communities and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia.. 15. Earning carbon credits through fallow management on lands affected by shifting cultivation in northeast India.. 16. Formal and indigenous forest-management systems in Central Vietnam: Implications and challenges for REDD+.. 17. Changing strategies of shifting cultivators to match a changing climate

18. Fallows and flooding: A case study on the potential contribution of fallows to flood mitigation.. 19. Dynamics of an island agroecosystem: Where to now?.. B. Is shifting cultivation friend or foe to biodiversity?.. 20. Second thoughts on secondary forests: Can swidden cultivation be compatible with conservation?.. 21. Biodiversity and swidden agroecosystems: An analysis and some Implications.. 22. Shifting cultivators, curators of forests and conservators of biodiversity: The Dayak of East Kalimantan, Indonesia.. 23. Fallow-management practices among the Tangkhuls of Manipur: Safeguarding provisioning and regulatory services from shifting-cultivation fallows.. 24. Some lesser known facts about jhum in Nagaland, northeast India.. 25. Plant genetic diversity in farming systems and poverty alleviation in Vietnam's northern mountain region.. 26. Experimenting with change: Shifting beliefs and rice varieties in swidden communities in northern Laos.. 27. Is the 'bogeyman' real? Shifting cultivation and the forests, Papua New Guinea.. 28. The end of swidden in Bhutan: Implications for forest cover and biodiversity.. 29. Valuation and management of forest ecosystem services: A skill well exercised by the forest people of Upper Nam Theun, Lao PDR.. 30. Benuaron: The fruit gardens of the Orang Rimba.. 31. Ancestral domain and national park potection: A logical union? A case study of the Mt Kitanglad Range Nature Park, Bukidnon, Philippines.. 32. Shifting cultivation and wildlife sanctuaries in ancestral domains: Friend or Foe of biodiversity conservation?.. 33. The missing link of forest regeneration: Dwindling shifting cultivation in India's Northwestern Ghats.. 34. Fallows and forest restoration.. 35. Characteristics and roles of fallow and riparian forests in a mountainous region of northern Laos.. 36. A plant-resources survey and festival: A community-based approach to biodiversity education and conservation

37. Developing information systems on indigenous plant resources in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.. 3. Specialization for markets or continued agrodiversity for subsistence?.. A. When swidden fallows become the domain of commodity crops.. 38. Oil palm as a productive fallow? Swidden change and new opportunities in smallholder land management.. 39. Where are the swidden fallows now? An overview of oil-palm and Dayak agriculture across Kalimantan, with case studies from Sanggau, in West Kalimantan.. 40. Busy people, idle land: The changing roles of swidden fallows in Sarawak.. 41. Socially constructed rubber plantations in the swidden landscape of southwest China.. 42. Rubber plantation, swidden agriculture and indigenous knowledge: A case study of a Bulang village in Xishuangbanna, China.. 43. Impacts of smallholder rubber on shifting cultivation and rural livelihoods in northern Laos.. 44. From subsistence swidden fallows to market-oriented monoculture production: Drivers of land-use change in the Lao PDR, in the context of market globalization.. 45. Transformation of a landscape: Shifting cultivation, biodiversity and Tea.. B. Shifting cultivation on an island frontier: An examination of the main swidden communities in Palawan, the Philippines.. 46. Tree crops, fallow management and agricultural settlement in the Cuyonon system of shifting cultivation.. 47. Governmental pressures on swidden landscapes on Palawan Island, the Philippines.. 48. Rice-related knowledge, farming strategies and the transformation of swiddens among the Batak of Palawan Island, the Philippines.. 4. Concluding section:.. 49. Gender analysis: Shifting cultivation and indigenous people.. 50. The Bidayuh of Sarawak: Gender, spirituality and swiddens.. 51. Cartoons about shifting cultivation: Using humour to emphasize some important points.. 52. Afterword: Swidden agriculture in retrospect.. Taxonomic index.. Ethnic group index.. General subject index

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 fallow to regain its soil fertility. This book 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. Some critics have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called swidden cultivation or slash-and-burn agriculture) as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, the book showsthat such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, scientific agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment and local communities. The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia, and presents over 100 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology. Inglés