The current version of the FALLOW model has grown out of a simple spatial representation of the ransition of 'shifting cultivation'into 'crop/fallow' and permanent cropping systems, buildingon a model first formulated by Trenbath (van Noor dwijk, 1999). The core modules of the model referred to plots(with changes during a year in volving crop yield, biomass growth, increase or decrease of soil fertility), households (with harvest of main staple above or below food requirement, depleting or replenishing food stocks), farmer decision making on land use intensity (increasing or decreasing the area opened for a next cropping phase), based on current farmer knowledge and expected yields and spatial prioritization(selecting those plots in the landscape for cropping that are most convenient, within existing restrictions of access to parts of the landscape).
Publication year
2009
Authors
Suyamto D A; Mulia, R.; van Noordwijk, M.; Lusiana, B.
Language
English
Keywords
fallow
Geographic
Indonesia
