Assessment of the spatio-temporal dynamics of shifting cultivation is important to understand
the opportunities for land restoration. The past studies on shifting cultivation mapping of …

Shifting cultivation is a traditional farming system that has been practised in many parts of
the world for centuries. It is rampant in the northeast region of India and has widespread …

Globally, shifting cultivation is known to be an important driver of tropical deforestation.
However, in this paper, we argue that it can be sustainably managed if the environmental …

The escalating demand for anthropic needs and urban development has highlighted the
importance of monitoring and change detection of land use land cover (LULC). With an …

Shifting cultivation is widely practiced in the northeastern hill (NEH) region of India. It is
known that the destruction of natural forests and its conversion to cropland leads to soil …

India's monsoon dependent agriculture is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate
change, and inadequate policies contribute to socio-economic difficulties in farming …

Northeast India (NEI) falls in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, which is one of the
biodiversity hotspots of the world, that covers 17.2 million ha of land under forests …

Shifting cultivation (SC), or swidden, continues to be a predominant agricultural practice in
some parts of North-East India despite efforts by the state to discourage that practice. The …

Agroforestry, with benefits including resource diversity, improved nutrition, climate change
mitigation, and increased income, can ensure financial stability for small farmers by …

Identifying shifting cultivation areas and assessing their spatio-temporal dynamics are
essential in framing climate-adaptive policies for efficient forest management and agriculture …