Shifting Cultivation Without Deforestation: A Case Study in the Mountains of Northwestern Vietnam

2001 ◽  
pp. 289-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Fox ◽  
Stephen Leisz ◽  
Dao Minh Truong ◽  
A. Terry Rambo ◽  
Nghiem Phuong Tuyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shifting Cultivation

Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Richards
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fixed Boundaries

Shifting cultivation is a type of farming without fixed boundaries. It obeys an ecological logic but requires constant improvisation and adaptation to fluid circumstances. The character of improvisation in shifting cultivation is explored with reference to an African case study (rice farming by the Mende people of Sierra Leone). Two elements are emphasized in particular—the management of fire (by men) and rice seeds (by women). A contrast, applicable not only to farming, but also to other activities such as military conflict and musical performance, is drawn between strategic planning and tactical improvisation. The relevance of Mary Douglas’s grid-group theory to the framing of the social skill sets required for improvisation is discussed.

scholarly journals Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurien ◽  
Lele ◽  
Nagendra
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
State Government ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Tree Plantations ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Forest Survey ◽  
Garo Hills ◽  
Government Statistics

Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing a suitable mapping framework, and identifying consequent methodological specifications. Our objective is to present a rigorous methodological framework and mapping protocol, couple it with extensive fieldwork and use them to undertake a two-season Landsat image analysis to map the forest-agriculture frontier of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, in Northeast India. We achieve an overall accuracy of ~80% and find that shifting cultivation is the most extensive land-use, followed by tree plantations and old-growth forest confined to only a few locations. We have also found that commercial plantation extent is positively correlated with shortened fallow periods and high land-use intensities. Our findings are in sharp contrast to various official reports and studies, including from the Forest Survey of India, the Wastelands Atlas of India and state government statistics that show the landscape as primarily forested with only small fractions under shifting cultivation, a consequence of the lack of clear definitions and poor understanding of what constitutes shifting cultivation and forest. Our results call for an attentive revision of India’s official land-use mapping protocols, and have wider significance for remote sensing-based mapping in other shifting cultivation landscapes.

Post-fire restoration of land under shifting cultivation: A case study of pineapple agroforestry in the Sub-Himalayan region

2022 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 114372
Author(s):  
Demsai Reang ◽  
Arun Jyoti Nath ◽  
Gudeta Weldesemayat Sileshi ◽  
Animekh Hazarika ◽  
Ashesh Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Himalayan Region

scholarly journals Understanding the Chepangs and Shifting Cultivation: A Case Study from Rural Village of Central Nepal

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhruba Prasad Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Rural Village ◽  
Central Nepal ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article attempts to seek the understanding and perception of Chepang on the practices of khoriya cultivation. It tries to explain the relationship of Chepang people to their traditional khoriya land by assessing the socio-cultural and economic importance in their life. Chepang’s indigenousness is closely connected to khoriya cultivation and the land is their ethnic and indigenous identity. The practices of shifting cultivation have to be understood holistically within the domain of social and cultural analysis. However, their relationship to their khoriya land and the agricultural practice cannot be understood only in measurable indicators and specific manners. For Chepang, shifting cultivation is a good ecological adaptation to their surrounding environmental settings based on indigenous knowledge and skills developed in the particular geographical setting on basis of trial and error. To understand culture, history and everyday life of the Chepang, knowing all about their traditional agricultural practice i.e. shifting cultivation is very significant. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6367 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5, 2011: 247-62

scholarly journals Carbon emissions from dryland shifting cultivation: a case study of Mexican tropical dry forest

Silva Fennica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1B) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Salinas-Melgoza ◽  
Margaret Skutsch ◽  
Jon Lovett ◽  
Armonia Borrego
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Tropical Dry Forest ◽  
Dry Forest
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