Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics

About this book

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.

Contents

1. The Tropics
2. Shifting Cultivation: Definition, Basic Features and Types
3. Soil Dynamics during Cropping
4. Soil Dynamics during the Fallow Period
5. Fallow Vegetation Dynamics
6. Relationships between Fallow Soil and Vegetation
7. Ecological Succession Theory and Models
8. Theory and Models of Soil Fertility Restoration under Bush Fallow
9. Intensification of Shifting Cultivation
10. Alternative Farming Systems and the Future of Shifting Cultivation1. The Tropics

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