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Shifting Cultivation Policies: Balancing Environmental and Social Sustainability
1060
by M. Cairns (Editor)
M. Cairns
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Shifting Cultivation Policies: Balancing Environmental and Social Sustainability
1060
by M. Cairns (Editor)
M. Cairns
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Overview
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.This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. The addendum chapters can be found at: www.cabi.org/openresources/91797
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781786391797 |
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Publisher: | CABI |
Publication date: | 12/28/2017 |
Pages: | 1060 |
Product dimensions: | 6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x (d) |
About the Author
M. Cairns is an independent scholar and researcher in Thailand.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introductory section1: Figments of fire and forest: Shifting cultivation policy in the Philippines and Indonesia2: Shifting cultivation policies in Southeast Asia: A need to work with, rather than against, smallholder farmers3: Policies impacting shifting cultivation: Getting them right4: Trends in shifting cultivation policy: Four decades of efforts to intensify land use in the shifting cultivation tracts of mainland Southeast Asia5: Tenure and shiftingB: Historical overviews from southeast Asia6: The geopolitics of shifting cultivation in Thailand: A brief history of the ‘hill tribe problem8: Lao swidden farmers: From self-initiated mobility to permanent settlement trends imposed by policy, 1830 to 20009: Romanticizing and villainizing shifting cultivators within national policies: Co-producing ethnic politics and resource-use legitimacy in Thailand’s community forestry debate10: Conservation and restoration of traditional grasslands in the Mount Asa region of Kyushu, Japan: the role of collaborative management and public policy supportD: The Complexities of Implementing ReDD+11: The viability of swidden agriculture and its uncertain role in REDD+12: Involving all local stakeholders and holders of land-use rights in REDD+: Indigenous people and/or local communities in IndonesiaPart 2: The impact of state policies on shifting cultivation13: Rethinking swidden cultivation in Myanmar: Policies for sustainable upland livelihoods and food security14: Swidden agriculture under threat: The case of Ratanakiri, northeast Cambodia: Opportunities and constraints from the national policy environment15: The growing voice of the state in the fallows of Laos16: Swidden agriculture and sloping land conversion in China’s Dulong Valley: Impact and adaptation17: Policies on shifting cultivation in the countries of the eastern Himalayas18: Reflections on the impacts of state policies on shifting cultivators in northeast India7: The French colonial administration vs swidden cultivation: From political discourse to coercive policies in French Indochina19: Vanishing shifting cultivation and loss of tribal culture in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India20: Shifting cultivation on steep slopes of Mizoram, India: Impact of policy reforms21: State land policies and shifting cultivation in Odisha, India22: The Dragon and its attempts to put out the fire23: From farmers to foresters? Response to pine encroachment on former swidden fields in Choekhor Valley, Bumthang district, Bhutan24: Keeping ecological disturbance on the land: Recreating swidden effects in Bhutan25: Shifting cultivation in Vietnam: Impacts of various policy reforms26: Misinterpreting the uplands of Vietnam: How government policies and maps lead to a misunderstanding of swidden and its associated livelihood systems27: Changing patterns of shifting cultivation in Timor-Leste28: Evolving swidden farming patterns in the Lao PDR: When policy reverses historically mobile ways of life to impose permanently settled livelihoods29: ‘Your land is needed’: The fundamental reason behind the sedentarization of shifting cultivators30: Was Thailand’s highland policy misdirected?31: Opium and shifting cultivation in Laos: State discourses and policies32: Eliminating opium from the Lao PDR: Impoverishment and threat of resumption of poppy cultivation following ‘illusory’ eradication33: Giving up fallows and indigenous swiddens in times of global land grabbing34: The effects of commercial agriculture and swidden-field privatization in southern Laos35: From traditional subsistence to commercial agriculture: A downward trend towards food insecurity in rural Lao PDR36: Policies, migration and coffee cultivation in Vietnam’s Central Highlands: A case study in Dak Lak province37: The Chayanov life cycle in upland villages of Laos: Socio-economic differentiation driven by state involvement38: Policy-driven changes in Lisu swiddening: Social organization as adaptation to a new economy39: From a complex to degraded system: Laws, customs, market forces and legal pluralism in the Cordillera, northern Philippines40: Vietnam’s ‘renovation’ policies: Impacts on upland communities and sustainable forest management41: Changes in species distribution and plant resources after the cessation of swidden cultivation in northern ThailandPart 3: Policy lessons that we should be learning42: Top-down or bottom-up? The role of the government and local institutions in regulating shifting cultivation in the Upper Siang district, eastern Himalaya, India43: Transitional upland rice cropping systems in northern Thailand: Priorities for research and development, on the basis of on-farm crop diagnosis44: Lessons learned in northern Thailand: Twenty years of implementation of highland agricultural development and natural resource management projects45: Putting upland agriculture on the map: The TABI experience in Laos46: Negotiating for community forestry policy: The recognition of damar agroforests in Indonesia47: Land law and swidden cultivation: Indonesian adat communities and the struggle for statutory rights48: Existing village regulations for natural resource management: A key entry point for community participation in sustainable management49: Policies that transform shifting cultivation practices: Linking multi-stakeholder and participatory processes with knowledge and innovationsPart 4: Concluding section50: Codification of customary communal tenure of upland shifting cultivation communities in Myanmar51: Shifting cultivation policy decisions that count52: Lessons learned from the identification and implementation of policies affecting shifting cultivation in the Asia-Pacific region: ‘A summary’From the B&N Reads Blog
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