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Illustrates the diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. This handbook focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. It analyses different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates.

Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive ana...

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business.

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business.

PLLS 10 consists, as did earlier volumes in the series, in part of revised and usually expanded versions of papers presented at seminar meetings and in part of further papers contributed at the invitation of the editors.

The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine), Virgil: a paradoxical poet? (P.R.Hardie), Herodotus warns the Athenians (John Moles), The magic of names: some etymologies in the Cyranides (David Bain).

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