Shifting or swidden cultivation, i.e. temporary cropping on clearings in the forest used to the be the most important land use in the Upper Mekong region. Shifting cultivators remove trees for cropping, but let them grow back again during the fallow period. Due to emerging economic opportunities and policy pressures, it is increasingly replaced by other land uses., e.g. permanent cropping and tree plantations such as natural rubber.
Publication year
2013
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
cultivation
Geographic
China
