Slash-and-Burn Rice Systems in Transition: Challenges for Agricultural Development in the Hills of Northern Laos

Röder, W.

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“…Fox considered that swidden agriculture is ecologically appropriate, culturally suitable, and the effective way to conserve biological diversity in SEA [63]. This is especially appropriate in the upland regions of MSEA for their dietary preference for rice, smallholder subsistence, and the incapacity to bring in tillage technology on sloping lands [95]. Many other studies also elaborated the economic and environmental rationality of swidden agriculture in the humid and mountainous context.…”

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

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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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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

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“…In other words, land area was an important capital under the normal climate but not under the climate event. However, land size is an important factor related to product volume; larger farm size means greater amounts of produce (Roder 1997;Southavilay et al 2013).…”

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“…Land preparation, such as slashing fallow forest or shrub vegetation and burning the dry fallow forest or shrub vegetation (Roder 1997) at the end of the dry season in March, is an important activity and sensitive to climate events. Kanemaru et al (2014) pointed out that the rainy season in northern Laos has begun earlier and its variability has also increased over 56 years (from 1951 to 2007) and climate change has become apparent, as seen in the 2011 climate event at the research site.…”

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Access to Livelihood Assets under the Influence of a Climate Event in Upland Northern Laos

2015

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This study examines the effects of a climate event on livelihood assets of households in upland northern Laos, when the early onset of the rainy season as a result of climate change led to a failure to burn swidden systems. A Sustainable Livelihoods Framework is applied to estimate rural livelihood assets associated with differences in climate conditions, such as the 2010 normal climate and the 2011 climate event, and to compare household strategies in each climate condition. The findings indicate that natural capital had the highest index value in the 2010 normal climate, whereas human capital had the highest value in the 2011 climate event. Financial capital had the lowest index in both climate conditions. Residents at the research site were better off in terms of natural capital but worse off in terms of financial capital. This indicates that the government and other rural development agencies should not only manage natural resources; income-generation activities are also needed. We conclude that natural resources, as well as non-timber forest product (NTFP) gathering and off-farm activity, were the most important strategies for the entire research site under the normal climate condition. NTFP gathering and outside work are important in meeting subsistence needs and augmenting income levels in households when the rainy season begins early as a result of climate change. Outside employment was an additional strategy in households to achieve their livelihood goals, including food security and household income generation, under conditions of economic change and climate events.

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“…Yayoi Fujita dan Kaisone Phengsopha tanpa diberikan pilihan sumber mata pencaharian telah memaksa petani dataran tinggi memperpendek siklus perladangan yang kadang-kadang berakibat lebih tingginya kebutuhan tenaga untuk pembersihan lahan dan lebih rendahnya padi yang dihasilkan (Roder, 1997;de Rouw et al, 2003;Ducourtieux, 2004;Lestrelin et al, 2005). Hasil studi lain menunjukkan bahwa LFA memperburuk keadaan kehidupan para petani yang sudah termarjinalkan secara sosial (Lao Consulting Group, 2002;Moizo, 2004aMoizo, dan 2004bDucourtieux et al, 2005).…”

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Pelajaran dari desentralisasi kehutanan: mencari tata kelola yang baik dan berkeadilan di Asia-Pasifik

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2009

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Slash-and-Burn Rice Systems in Transition: Challenges for Agricultural Development in the Hills of Northern Laos

Cited by 42 publications

References 12 publications

A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

Access to Livelihood Assets under the Influence of a Climate Event in Upland Northern Laos

Pelajaran dari desentralisasi kehutanan: mencari tata kelola yang baik dan berkeadilan di Asia-Pasifik

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