Wildfires are responsible for a substantial loss of forest ecosystem services globally and
represent a major driving force of forest degradation across Latin American and the …

Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we focused …

Despite their humid environment, tropical rainforests are threatened by fires that negatively
impact their ecological and economic value. However, fires in these ecosystems have been …

Silvopastoral systems (SPS) have been widely implemented in the Colombian Amazon
region to improve pastures involving a greater diversity of species, soil tillage, fertilization …

Fire is one of the major issues facing Southeast Asian peatlands causing socio-economic,
human health and climate crises. Many of these fires in the region are associated with land …

Slash and burn is a land use practice widespread all over the world, and nowadays it is
formally recognized as the principal livelihood system in rural areas of South America, Asia …

In addition to causing physical degradation and nutrient depletion, erosion of cultivated soils
in the Amazon affects aquatic ecosystems through the release of natural soil mercury (Hg) …

On the western coast of Madagascar, the dry tropical forest of Kirindy may disappear in the
next 50 years because of its rapid conversion into agricultural land by slash-and-burn …

In the past, agriculture was directed to satisfying human needs. Nowadays, it is directed to
meeting the markets, forcing the peasantries to adapt to this condition. As a result, family …

Slash and burn cultivation (jhum), a major form of traditional agriculture in the hills of north
eastern Himalaya has now slowly shifted towards more stable forms of land use. This land …