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Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future.

This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. Access the addendum chapters below.

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A1. Assessing shifting cultivation policies through the lens of systems thinking

A2. The role of sacred forests and traditional livelihoods in REDD+: Two case studies in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

A3. Integrating swidden agricultural knowledge systems into sustainable intensification in the Central Mekong region

A4. Indigenous fallow management: Property rights and other dimensions of official misunderstanding

A5. From highland to lowland: Impacts of resettlement on vanishing aspects of Tariang culture in the Lao PDR

A6. Policy issues for shifting cultivation communities and their ecosystems: The case of northeast India

A7. Institutional design and occupational ‘opportunity’: The case of shifting cultivators in Nagaland, northeast India

A8. Revisiting statutory laws and customary norms governing swidden agricultural systems: A study based on swidden farmers in southern Odisha

A9. A proposed strategy for agricultural development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

A10. Climate change: Integrating indigenous and local knowledge into adaptation policies and practices.A case study from Nepal

A11. Policies that transform shifting cultivation and encourage community-based forest management in Lampung province, Indonesia

A12. Balancing food security and biodiversity in the context of a changing landscape: The case of GMO corn adoption in Isabela, Philippines

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