Fire, a prevalent land management tool in rotational shifting cultivation (RSC), has long
been debated for its immediate disruption of surface soil, vegetation, and microbial …

Agroforestry research is being transformed from a collection of largely descriptive studies
into more scientific approaches, based on process-oriented research. The development of …

Shifting cultivation, which long provided the subsistence requirements of a large number of
people in the mountains of South and Southeast Asia under a situation of low population …

The integration of information from household surveys and data on land-cover changes
derived from remote sensing improves our understanding of the causes and processes of …

The recent haze affecting Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, as well as forest fires in the
Amazon have raised global concerns on the debilitating effect of slash-and-burn agricultural …

Drawing together the available literature on cattle in the Amazon, the focus and intent is for a
detailed analysis of the cattle sector and how it fits within Amazon development from …

Improved crop–fallow systems in the humid tropics can simultaneously sequester
atmospheric carbon emissions and contribute to sustainable livelihoods of rural populations …

A model for simulating resource flows in a rural subsistence community is described. The
People and Landscape Model (PALM) consists of a number of agents representing …

As in other mountain regions of Asia, agricultural lands in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of
Bangladesh are undergoing degradation due primarily to environmentally incompatible land …

Forests continue to fall for agricultural purposes throughout the humid tropics, with
immediate and potentially large consequences for climate change and biodiversity loss …