Search Results - subject:"slash and burn"

Transboundary fire and haze games: local capture and common agency

Rusli, Ridwan D.; Youngho, Chang - 2021

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SOIL PROPERTIES DYNAMICS INDUCED BY PASSAGE OF FIRE DURING AGRICULTURAL BURNING

DENNIS EDEM I.; USOROH ALPHONSUS D.; ESSIEN ROSEMARY A. - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 17 (2013) 3, pp. 20-30

Characteristics of an ecosystem are altered both as sudden modifications induced by the passage of the fire and the delayed changes derived from the simultaneous modifications of various soil physical and chemical parameters. Effects of fire on soil properties was performed in experimental...

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Poverty and environmental degradation under trade liberalization: searching for second-best policy options.

Pascual, Unai; Martinez-Espineira, Roberto - In: Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales 06 (2006) 12

Forest based agricultural systems in the tropics are being opened up to international trade at an unprecedented rate. This is the case of tropical agriculture in Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is also having significant impacts on the decentralized land use...

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FARMER EDUCATION AND ADOPTION OF SLASH AND BURN AGRICULTURE

Schuck, Eric C.; Nganje, William E.; Yantio, Debazou; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2001

cropping systems other than slash and burn. Choice of cropping system by farmers in Cameroon, whether slash and burn, multiple … efforts in extension education are, therefore, critical in both reducing the environmental damage from slash and burn … and burn agriculture. The present research examines the extent to which extension education can promote adoption of …

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