Agroforestry has been practiced for decades and is undoubtedly an important source of
income for Indonesian households living near forests. However, there are still many cases of …

Under changing land use in tropical Asia, there is evidence of forest product diversification
through implementation of tree-based farming by smallholders. This paper assesses in two …

Bangladesh government has recently pledged to restore 0.75 million ha of degraded
forestland as part of its commitment to the Bonn Challenge, however little is known about the …

Swidden cultivation can contribute to deforestation and land degradation, which can
subsequently result in a number of serious environmental problems. This paper examines …

Shifting cultivation is a globally important form of agriculture covering over 280 million
hectares in the tropics, but it has often been blamed for deforestation and forest degradation …

Land cover change has posed significant concerns to biodiversity and climate change in
Bangladesh and globally. Despite the country's designation of forest regions as protected …

Rural livelihood has long been discussed in scientific literature, although livelihood
sustainability of fringe communities in far-flung and disadvantageous areas is very scarcely …

Evidence shows that there is a close link between the intensification of shifting cultivation
(SC) and the Amazon forest resilience. However, SC, to this day, is a widely implemented …

Forest cover changes have diverse outcomes for the livelihoods of rural people across the
developing world. However, these outcomes are poorly characterized across varying …

One of the main causes of tropical forest loss is conversion to agriculture, which is constantly
increasing as a dominant land cover in the tropics. The loss of forests greatly affects …