A simulation model to study land use strategies in swidden agriculture systems

Sulistyawati, Endah; Noble, Ian; Roderick, Michael L.

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2005.06.011

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“…For example, market factors like commodity prices fluctuations will allow a shift between swidden cultivation and cash cropping [90]. Thus, swidden practice can be an effective strategy to cope with market fluctuation [65,90]. However, the REDD+ action program will pose a profound effect on the development of swidden system, such as government's curtailment.…”

Section: Understanding How Swidden Agricultural Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is noteworthy that easier and frequent involvement in a market economy might increase the risk. For example, market factors like commodity prices fluctuations will allow a shift between swidden cultivation and cash cropping [90]. Thus, swidden practice can be an effective strategy to cope with market fluctuation [65,90].…”

Section: Understanding How Swidden Agricultural Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To better understand how different factors affect swidden cultivation, spatially explicit assessment should be one of directions for future research [97]. More details of the different factors affecting swidden agriculture will not only shed light on the debate over the persistence or demise of swidden [98], but also help in better understanding the livelihood impacts on swiddeners [65,90] and environmental effects on forest ecosystems and biodiversity as well [64,66].…”

Section: Analyzing the Underlying Drivers Of Swidden Agriculture Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fundamental reason is poverty. Maintaining swidden cultivation helps local farmers to alleviate the impact due to commodity price fluctuations [90]. These people usually dwell in relatively inaccessible mountainous and hilly parts, and partially or fully, directly or indirectly, have to turn to swidden cultivation for subsistence [91].…”

Section: Viewpoint Of Persistencementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

Zhu

Jiang

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Remote Sensing

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Swidden agriculture is by far the dominant land use system in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia (SEA). It provides various valuable subsistence products to local farmers, mostly the poor ethnic minority groups. Controversially, it is also closely connected with a number of environmental issues. With the strengthening regional economic cooperation in SEA, swidden agriculture has experienced drastic transformations into other diverse market-oriented land use types since the 1990s. However, there is very limited information on the basic geographical and demographic data of swidden agriculture and the socio-economic and biophysical effects of the transformations. International programs, such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), underscore the importance of monitoring and evaluating swidden agriculture and its transition to reduce carbon emission due to deforestation and forest degradation. In this context, along with the accessibility of Landsat historical imagery, remote sensing based techniques will offer an effective way to detect and monitor the locations and extent of swidden agriculture. Many approaches for investigating fire occurrence and burned area can be introduced for swidden agriculture mapping due to the common feature of fire relatedness. In this review paper, four broad approaches involving spectral signatures, phenological characteristics, statistical theory and landscape ecology were summarized for swidden agriculture delineation. Five research priorities about swidden agriculture involving remote sensing techniques, spatial pattern, change, drivers and impacts were proposed accordingly. To our knowledge, a synthesis review on the remote sensing and outlook on swidden agriculture has not been reported yet. This review paper aims to give a comprehensive overview of swidden agriculture studies in the domains of debated definition, trends, remote sensing methods and OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2014, 6 1655 outlook research in SEA undertaken in the past two decades.

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Section: Understanding How Swidden Agricultural Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding How Swidden Agricultural Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analyzing the Underlying Drivers Of Swidden Agriculture Changesmentioning

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Section: Viewpoint Of Persistencementioning

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

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Jiang

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“…These are the studies of swidden agriculture in north-eastern India by Mishra and Ramakrishnan (1982) and Toky and Ramakrishnan (1983), on Kalimantan (Indonesia) by Dove (1983) and Sulistyawati et al (2005), in Venezuela (Amazonia) by Uhl (1987) and Uhl et al (1988), in Zambia by Chidumayo (1987) and in a dry forest area in north eastern Brazil by Kauffman et al (1993).…”

Section: Estimate Of Energy Utilization Linked With Purposeful Burninmentioning

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Is increased energy utilization linked to greater cultural complexity? Energy utilization by Australian Aboriginals and traditional swidden agriculturalists

Reijnders

2006

Environmental Sciences

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Theories have been proposed that link increases in energy utilization to increases in cultural complexity. Indeed, available estimates of per capita non-food energy utilization by hunter -gatherers and by people practising swidden agriculture in wooded areas, focusing on fuel wood use, are roughly 1 -2 orders of magnitude lower than for industrial societies. The latter are in the range of 0.8 -3.4 6 10 5 MJ year 71 . However, apart from the use of fuel wood, the former estimates have not included work performed by burning vegetation. Here quantitative estimates are given of recent energy utilization linked to burning biomass by Australian Aboriginals and people practising traditional swidden agriculture. Per capita energy utilization linked to biomass burning by Australian Aboriginals is estimated at 1.6 6 10 6 to 4.0 6 10 7 MJ year 71 . Estimated per capita energy utilization associated with burning biomass in traditional swidden agriculture in the tropical rainforests of Kalimantan and Venezuela, the dry forest of north-eastern Brazil and the miombo woodland of Zambia is in the range of 1.0 6 10 5 to 6.3 6 10 5 MJ year 71 . The values for non-food energy utilization reported here are at variance with theories that link increases in energy utilization to increases in cultural complexity.

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