Shifting Cultivation: A New Old Paradigm for Managing Tropical Forests
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 50 (6) , 521-528
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0521:scanop]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Shifting cultivation, or swidden farming, is often held to be the principle driving force for deforestation in tropical Asia (Myers 1993). National governmentsKeywords
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