wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming
ISBN: 9781891853913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and...
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormou...
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760,80 zł |
Shifting Cultivation Policies: Balancing Environmental and Social Sustainability
ISBN: 9781786391797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 1076 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future.
Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of ...
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248,54 zł |
Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming
ISBN: 9781891853920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and...
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormou...
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299,02 zł |
Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change: Indigenous People, Agriculture and Forest Conservation
ISBN: 9780415746038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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... Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typica... |
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944,43 zł |
Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific
ISBN: 9781800620094 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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276,10 zł |
Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change: Indigenous People, Agriculture and Forest Conservation
ISBN: 9780415746052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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... Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typica... |
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309,51 zł |