RURAL LANDSCAPES of Southeast Asia have developed from a basis of 'shifting cultivation' and fallo-crop rotation in a diverse mosaic of Agroforestry System, forest patches used for non-timber products as well as timber harvesting,economic system of the sarrounding parmanent cropping , and fire-climax imperata grasslands. The agents of change are the farmers who make their strategic decisions on land use patterns and tactical decisions on labour allocations , both likely to be based on the result to obtain ,and strongly conditioned by capital availability.
Publication year
2005
Authors
Suyamto D A; van Noordwijk, M.; Lusiana, B.
Language
English
Keywords
land use, landscape, local knowledge, sustainability, upland areas
Geographic
Viet Nam
