Prelims - Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Volume 2

1992 ◽  
pp. i-xvi ◽  
Author(s):  
N.S. Jodha ◽  
M. Banskota ◽  
Tej Partap
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Agriculture

scholarly journals Sociocultural Mechanisms Concerning Cropping Systems in Mountain Agriculture: A Case Study of the Eastern Slopes of Tanzania’s Uluguru Mountains

Agriculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Yuko Yamane ◽  
Kasumi Ito
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
Mountain Agriculture ◽  
Uluguru Mountains ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
The Village

In agricultural science, the establishment of a given cropping system in mountainous areas is often understood from the relationship between differences of altitude-specific, agroecological conditions and crop cultivation characteristics. However, social factors can also play a role. We aimed to clarify how the cropping system is maintained through examining sociocultural factors, specifically land tenure and marriage systems, in an agricultural community in rural mountainous Africa. Several surveys based on participatory observation accompanied by home stays were conducted to determine people who participated in cropping systems and to understand which social system maintained the cropping system. We found that around 70% of target households in Kiboguwa village cultivated three staple crops (maize, cassava and rice) using the same cropping system and almost no farmers outside the village used the village’s sloped fields, meaning that the villagers maintained the cropping system. Households acquired nearby sloped fields by various means such as inheriting land through maternal lineage of household heads or wives. We observed virilocal and uxorilocal residence at similar degrees—and if either the husband or wife was from outside the village, that household would also have fields outside the village. However, nearly 80% of marriages were intravillage and villagers predominantly used fields located within the village limits regardless of the residence type, which helped maintain the cropping system.

scholarly journals Benefits of plant strips for sustainable mountain agriculture

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Hugo Durán Zuazo ◽  
Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo ◽  
José Ramón Francia Martínez ◽  
Armando Martínez Raya ◽  
Lorenzo Arroyo Panadero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Agriculture
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