Strong international demand for natural rubber is driving expansion of industrial‐scale and smallholder monoculture plantations, with> 2 million ha established during the last decade …
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …
N Van Vliet, O Mertz, A Heinimann, T Langanke… - Global environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest- agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …
More than 50 years ago the FAO Staff through its forestry journal Unasylva issued an “appeal… to governments, research centers, associations and private persons who are in a …
This paper explores the major interactions between the transformation of swidden farming and the pursuit of rural livelihoods in the uplands of Southeast Asia. The paper draws on …
Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management …
This paper analyses local geographical contexts targeted by transnational large-scale land acquisitions (> 200 ha per deal) in order to understand how emerging patterns of socio …
Policy makers across the tropics propose that carbon finance could provide incentives for forest frontier communities to transition away from swidden agriculture (slash‐and‐burn or …
C Padoch, M Pinedo‐Vasquez - Biotropica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Several prominent articles have recently revived the debate on how to advance and reconcile two pressing global issues: conservation of biodiversity, and food production for an …