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Regeneration in integral and incipient swidden systems Uhl (1990) �Integral long fallow swidden systems �Incipient short fallow systems
Integral swidden practices have been opposed and suppressed by both colonial and post-independent governments around the world. Colonial and nation states directly and indirectly suppressed integral swidden systems by: - ignoring traditional land & resource rights in legal documents & cadastral surveys - granting concessions for logging & export cash crop plantations on ancestral lands of swidden cultivators which eliminates the viability of land extensive long fallow swidden practices - encouraging migration to avoid socioeconomic problems & land tenure inequities elsewhere (e.g., Brazil) or to provide plantation labor or pursue national development policies (e.g., transmigration in Indonesia) State opposition to integral swidden agriculture reflects: - ignorance, particularly re. its productivity, sustainability and resilience - bias towards ‘modern’ industrial, agriculture - cultural/racial/development bias - many swidden societies are minorities - desire to control populations for purposes of taxation and for cultivation export cash crops
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Page 3 and 4: fallow regrowth planting Swidden Cy
Page 5 and 6: In integral swidden systems farm pa
Page 7 and 8: Men are reportedly responsible for
Page 9 and 10: Planting Planting occurs immediatel
Page 11 and 12: Weed management Weeds rarely establ
Page 13 and 14: Crops Swidden farmers cultivate cro
Page 15 and 16: Swidden fallow vegetation includes:
Page 17 and 18: Summary attributes of integral swid
Page 19 and 20: Summary attributes of incipient sla
Page 21 and 22: The many different factors and unde
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Page 25: Regeneration of biomass following d
Page 29 and 30: Comparison of integral & incipient
Page 31 and 32: Discussion topics and questions: 1)
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