Almost every ecosystem has been amended so that plants and animals can be used as
food, fibre, fodder, medicines, traps and weapons. Historically, wild plants and animals were …

Southeast Asia (SEA) hosts one of the most complex aerosol systems in the world, with
convoluted meteorological scales, sharp geographic and socioeconomic features, high …

Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land
Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) are currently operational for routine Earth …

Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some
lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many …

Rubber plantations are expanding rapidly throughout montane mainland Southeast Asia (–).
More than 500,000 ha may have been converted already in the uplands of China, Laos …

More than 50 years ago the FAO Staff through its forestry journal Unasylva issued an
“appeal… to governments, research centers, associations and private persons who are in a …

This paper explores the major interactions between the transformation of swidden farming
and the pursuit of rural livelihoods in the uplands of Southeast Asia. The paper draws on …

For centuries swidden was an important farming practice found across the girth of Southeast
Asia. Today, however, these systems are changing and sometimes disappearing at a pace …