Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific

1: Movers in the Mountains: Swiddeners as a Force for Change in a Changing Environment. 2: Innovation in Shifting Cultivation: A Bibliographic Review of a Lasting and Accelerating Process. 3: Responding to a Changing World: Discovering Mixed-Livelihood Strategies. Striving to Overcome Vulnerabilities and Uncertainties. 4: Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in the Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation. 5: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Shifting Cultivation among the Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India. 6: Changes in Fallow Periods and Land Use Intensity of Swidden Agriculture in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) during 1988-2016. 7: Stripping the Strips: The Failure of Soil-and Water- Conservation Technologies in Northern Thailand and Eastern Indonesia. 8: Why Philippine Foragers Still Haven't Become Farmers: Two Decades of Research on Agta Swidden Cultivation (1983-2004). 9: Our Farms are as Good as Theirs: From Hunters and Gatherers to Shifting Cultivators in Sarawak, East Malaysia. 10: How do the Iban of Sarawak Select Farming Sites for Shifting Cultivation? A Comparison of Soil and Vegetation Conditions of Fallow Forests under Different Land-Use Pressures. 11: Spatial Taboos and Ethnic Brao Swidden Agriculture in Northeastern Cambodia and Southern Laos. 12: Change and Permanence in Swidden Agriculture among the Tampuan in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. 13: Practices and Traditions of Bio-resource Management in the Tay Cultural Area: Between Uplands and Lowlands. 14: Topsoil, Innovative Equipage and Shifting Cultivators in the Asia-Pacific Region. 15: Nutritional Importance of Swidden Cultivation. 16: Shifting Cultivation as an Important Source of Food and Dietary Diversity. 17: Domestication of a Forest Plant to Modify Swidden Cultivation: A Response to Labour Shortage and the Advancing Age of Shifting Cultivators in Southern Chin State, Myanmar. 18: Innovations in Seed and Crop Management by Indigenous Groups in Nghe An, Vietnam. 19: Cropping Pattern Practices of Jhum in Nagaland. 20: Shifting Cultivation under Transition: Land Use Changes and Adaptive Capacity Shaped by Social and Technological Innovations in Highland Communities of Northern Thailand. 21: Fallows, Weeds and Adaptive Lahu Swiddeners: Vegetation Change and the End of Upland-Rice Based Subsistence in Northern Thailand. 22: When Shifting Cultivation becomes a Refuge: Farmers' Innovations Beaten by Market Risk in West Sumatra, Indonesia. 23: Swidden Cultivation: A Strategy to Increase Revenues amidst Pressures from Policies Prohibiting Burning the Forest and Limited Farm Land. 24: Green Manure/Cover Crops: How Farmers Increase Soil Fertility and Drought-Resistance at (Almost) Zero Cost. 25: Farmer-Derived Soil Conservation Measures in Northern Thailand Hill Fields. 26: The Practice of Laying Wood Across Slope Contours to Reduce Soil Erosion in Nagaland, India. 27: Fallows, Weeds and Adaptive Lahu Swiddeners: Trading the Axe for the Hoe and Herbicidal Salt Sprays in Transitional Upland-Rice Swiddening Systems of Northern Thailand. 28: Imperata cylindrica Infestation in Northern Lao PDR: Spatial Distribution and Farmers' Management Strategies. 29: Shifting Cultivation as an Innovation against Climate and Political Uncertainty in Myanmar. 30: Shifting Cultivation for Food Security: Resilience Strategies in the Pacific Islands. 31: Crop Diversity Management in a Changing Shifting Cultivation Landscape in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, India. 32: Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies of Shifting Agriculture in a Wa Village in Yunnan, China. 33: The Spiritual Ecology of Vi Olak Village and the Ecological Livelihood of the H're People of Vietnam's Central Highlands. 34: Knowledge Co-creation for Agrobiodiversity, Gender Equity and Enhanced Well-Being in the Village Development Committees (VDC) of Khatarshnong, Meghalaya. 35: When Shifting Cultivation Ensures the Sustainability of an Agrarian System: The Kasepuhan Pasir Eurih Indigenous Community, in West Java, Indonesia. 36: Swidden Cultivation Practices in Sahu, Eastern Indonesia: Forty Years of Experimentation and Adjustment. 37: Indonesian Land Laws and Small-Holder Rights: Changing Attitudes to Land 'Ownership' in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. 38: Shifting Cultivation within Customary Resource Governance: Pressures and Adaptation in Shan State, Myanmar. 39: Jhum and the Customary Tenure System in the Naga Village Republic. 40: Without Fire: Turning Forests into Agroforests on Siberut, Indonesia. 41: Fireless Shifting Cultivation: A Lesser Known Form of Shifting Cultivation Practiced by Tangkhuls in Selected Pockets of Ukhrul District, Manipur, India. 42: Elements of some Unusual Agricultural Systems in Papua New Guinea: Dropping Trees onto Growing Food Crops and No Burning of Fallow Vegetation. 43: Fallow Management in Transforming Shifting Cultivation Systems. 44: Fallowed Swidden Fields in Vietnam: Floral Composition, Succession Dynamics, and Farmer Management. 45: Dahas: The Innovations in Shifting Cultivation by the Dayak in West Kalimantan to Fight Deforestation and Climate Change. 46: Muyong: A System of Assisting Forest Regrowth for Water and Food Security. 47: Inventory of Tree Stands in Forest Fallows of Nagaland. 48: Shifting Cultivation and Rehabilitation of Natural Forest Ecosystems in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. 49: Calculating the Carbon Balance: Questioning the Contribution of Shifting Cultivation to Climate Change in Kayah State, Myanmar. 50: Carbon and Biodiversity Outcomes under Divergent Management Scenarios in Shifting Cultivation Landscapes in the Upland Philippines. 51: Pakukui: The Productive Fallow Agricultural System of Hamakua, Hawai'i. 52: Composite Farming Systems in an Era of Change: Nagaland, Northeast India. 53: Successful Farming on Precipitous Slopes: A 170-Year-Old Indigenous Improved-Fallow System at Naalad in the Philippines. 54: Traditional Use of Macaranga Trees for Soil Fertility: By Naga Shifting Cultivators in Northeast India. 55: Maintaining Soil Fertility and Sustainable Swidden Cultivation with Albizia Trees: An Innovation of the Outer Baduy Community, South Banten, Indonesia. 56: Sentinels of the Past: Conservation Status and Cultural Importance of Koka (Java cedar, Bischofia javanica) as a Multipurpose Tree in Shifting Agriculture in the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. 57: Household Energy Security through Fallow Management by the Wanchos of Arunachal Pradesh, India. 58: Smallholder Teak Systems: Indigenous Innovations in Improving Fallow Management. 59: 'Rattan is Sick': Exploring the (Dis)continuity of Kalimantan's Rattan-Swidden Complex. 60: Drawing on Past Practices to Secure the Future: Innovative Applications of Traditional Lac Rearing in the Fallows of Karbi Farmers in Assam, North East India. 61: Managing Fallows as Bee Fodder by a Pgaz K' Nyau Village in Northern Thailand. 62: Negotiating the Forest-Fallow Interface: Benzoin trees in the Multifunctional Shifting Cultivation Landscapes of Lao PDR. 63: Borassus Palm Utilization as a Complementary Mode of Livelihood in Dryland Cultivation. 64: Innovations in Kemri Shifting Cultivation: Household Strategies, Land Institutions, and a Hedge against Official Policy in South Sulawesi. 65: Rotating Agroforests: Using Shifting Cultivation Practices to Construct a Sustainable Livelihood. 66: Fallow Management through Cultivation of Broom Grass: A Potential Cash Crop in Northeast India. 67: Kenyah Knowledge, Use, and Valuation of Plant Medicines Related to Forest and Swidden Succession: Apo Kayan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. 68: Toward Farming Sustainability: Innovations by Shifting Cultivators in the Uplands of North Vietnam. 69: Researching Tithonia and Other Daisies as Fallow Species in Southeast Asia. 70: The Effectiveness of Wild Sunflower as a Fallow Crop in Uma Cultivation. 71: The 'Talun-Kebun' System: Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation in West Java, Indonesia. 72: The Role of Bamboo in Fallow Vegetation Recovery: Viewed from the Land-Use History of Karen Swidden Cultivation in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar. 73: Bamboos Species and their Multiple Uses in Northern Laos: A Case Study of Luang Prabang Province. 74: Composting and Sweet Potato Mounds in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 75: Taro to Yams: Changes in Crop Use and Agricultural Techniques among the Warta of Torassi River, Southwest Papua New Guinea. 76: Temporal Changes and Innovations in Raised-Bed Shifting Cultivation at Higher Elevations in Meghalaya, Northeast India. 77: Paludiculture and Improved Fire Management as a Key towards Sustainable Shifting Cultivation Practices on Peatlands. 78: Shifting Cultivation on Peatlands: Innovative Practices in Dealing with Floods and the Policy to Ban Burning in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. 79: Shifting Cultivation and Agroforestry Practices on Peatlands in Central Sumatra. 80: Mitigation and Adaptive Practices of Farmers in Response to Flooding along Liguasan Marsh, in the Southern Philippines. 81: Spaces, Memory and Loss: Feminist Interpretations of Shifting Agriculture Practices among Tribal Communities of Southern Rajasthan, India. 82: Jhum Practices and Innovations in the Naga Hills: Women's Stories of Resilience and Ecological Regeneration. 83: Concluding chapter.