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Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

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Alternatives of slash and burn: a pragmatic approach to mitigate tropical deforestation

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The paper presents an additional strategy to mitigate tropical deforestation: intensifying agricultural and forestry production by providing shifting cultivators with alternatives to slash and burn agriculture. This strategy is largely absent from current policy papers because they tend to focus on forestry or environmental sectors ignoring agriculture even though agriculture is the main proximate cause of tropical deforestation. A series of alternatives to slash and burn agriculture which have been developed in the past twenty years at research level are briefly described. It is recommended that alternatives to slash and burn be incorporated into current policies to mitigate deforestation and that a worldwide deforestation reduction program be put into effect in the key deforesting countries of the world.
    Année de publication

    1992

    Auteurs

    Sanchez P A J; Bandy D E

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    agroforestry, deforestation, shifting cultivation, soil, traditional farming, tropics

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