TY - SER
KW - livestock
KW - climate
KW - appropriate technology and intermediate technology
KW - shifting cultivation
KW - agroecology
KW - horticulture
KW - agricultural systems
KW - rainfall
KW - soil management
KW - watersheds
KW - alley cropping
KW - agroforestry
KW - research 
KW - farming systems
AU - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service
AB - Shifting cultivation, under its diverse forms of slash and burn systems, is a traditional method of cultivating tropical upland soils, mostly for subsistence purposes. During the rest or fallow periods intervening between crops, the natural fertility of the soil is restored for renewed utilization in a subsequent period of crop growth. This traditional system of cultivation is in ecological balance with the environment and does not irreversibly degrade the soil resource, provided a sufficient length of fallow is allowed for soil restoration.
AN - 91-01439
BT - FAO Soils Bulletin no. 53
CN - S602.87.I47 1984
CY - Rome
DA - 01/1984
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - Shifting cultivation, under its diverse forms of slash and burn systems, is a traditional method of cultivating tropical upland soils, mostly for subsistence purposes. During the rest or fallow periods intervening between crops, the natural fertility of the soil is restored for renewed utilization in a subsequent period of crop growth. This traditional system of cultivation is in ecological balance with the environment and does not irreversibly degrade the soil resource, provided a sufficient length of fallow is allowed for soil restoration.
PB - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
PP - Rome
PY - 1984
SN - 92-5-102121-X
EP - 201
T2 - FAO Soils Bulletin no. 53
TI - Improved production systems as an alternative to shifting cultivation
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11418879
ER -