Shifting cultivation in der Selva Lacandona (Mexiko)

Economic Models of Shifting Cultivation: A Review

Small-Scale Farming and Shifting Cultivation

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 ...

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...

Changes in Forest Biomass, Litter Dynamics and Soils following Shifting Cultivation in Southern Mexico: an Overview

Deborah Lawrence. B.A. Harvard University. Ph.D. Duke University. Address: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, P. O. Box 400123, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4123, USA. e-mail: [email protected] David Foster. B.A. Connecticut College. M.S. and Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Address: Harvard Forest, Harvard University, P. O. Box 68, Petersham, Massachusetts 01366...