Shifting cultivation is a common agricultural practice that is the basis of subsistence for many
rural populations throughout the Tropics. The recent strong trend towards shorter fallow …

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 …

The effects of swidden cultivation on carbon storage and soil quality are outlined and
compared to the effects of the intensified production systems that swidden systems of …

The hydrological and geomorphological impacts of traditional swidden cultivation in
Montane Mainland Southeast Asia are virtually inconsequential, whereas the impacts …

A key challenge for land change science in general and research on swidden agriculture in
particular, is linking land cover information to human–environment interactions over larger …

Over the last decades, political, economic and environmental pressures have encouraged
changes from swidden to more intensive agricultural practices, resulting in the hypothesis …

The rotational nature of shifting cultivation poses several challenges to its detection by
remote sensing. Consequently, there is a lack of spatial data on the dynamics of shifting …

Biomass burning is an integral part of the Earth system, influencing and being influenced by
global climate conditions, vegetation cover and human activity. Fire has long been …

Large areas of the tropical forest landscapes are still occupied–partly or fully–by swidden
cultivation, but it is also clear that in many areas both the extent and intensity of swidden …

We analyse an 89-year streamflow record (1921–2009) from the Upper ** River in
northern Thailand to determine if anomalous flows have increased over time (Trenberth …