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Voices From The Forest - 9781891853920

Un libro in lingua di Cairns Malcolm (EDT) edito da Stylus Pub Llc, 2007

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Cairns (anthropology, Australian National U.) introduces 68 case studies belying the reputation that indigenous slash-and-burn agriculture (also known as swidden or shifting cultivation) has as a contributor to land degradation, deforestation, and today, to smog in Southeast Asia. Multidisciplinary international scientists analyze the diversity of such rotational and fallow arrangements, and the lessons that such traditional practices that are often ingenuous adaptations to local conditions offer for sustainable farming. E.g., the potential of harvesting native wild vegetables is discussed as an alternative to growing pest-prone, heavy fertilizer-feeding exotic species. Indexing is by botanical name, ethnic group, and subject. Distributed by Johns Hopkins U. Press. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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