Shifting Cultivation and Fixation of Shifting Cultication

Small-Scale Farming and Shifting Cultivation

Economic Models of Shifting Cultivation: A Review

A Spatiotemporal Model of Shifting Cultivation and Forest Cover Dynamics

Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers throughout the humid forests of the tropics. Sustainable use of the resource base as a source of fertile land for cultivation requires long periods of fallow and the ability to move the zone of active cultivation from one location to another over time. At the individual patch or field level, shifting cultivation is ...

Shifting Sugars and Shifting Paradigms

No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins for digesting lactose only when lactose is available and glucose, a better sugar, is not. However...

Agent-based modelling of shifting cultivation field patterns, Vietnam

Shifting cultivation in the Nghe An Province of Vietnam’s Northern Mountain Region produces a characteristic land-cover pattern of small and larger fields. The pattern is the result of farmers cultivating either individually or in spatially clustered groups. Using spatially explicit agent-based modelling, and relying on empirical data from fieldwork and observations for parameterization of vari...