The search for a sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn agriculture in the World's rain forests: the Guama Model and its implementation

This account describes the context, history and outcomes of a series of studies into the ecology of slash-and-burn (S-B) agriculture in the world's humid tropics. These studies, which began in the mid-1980s, identified promising lines of research and continued to field trials, in Central Americ...

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Main Author: Michael Hands
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2021-02-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.201204