Stabilizing shifting agriculture
- Evaluating shifting cultivation
- Tackling causes of destructive shifting cultivation
- Developing alternatives to shifting agriculture
Context
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends limiting and ultimately halting destructive shifting cultivation by addressing the underlying social and ecological causes.
Claim
What else can shifting cultivators do for a living that will allow them to exploit their environments on an ecologically-sound, sustained-yield basis, and yet satisfy both their subsistence needs and their market wants? The answer is arboriculture, or tree-crop farming - cultivation of coconuts, bananas, fruit trees, and the like.
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SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(G) Very specific strategies
Subject
Research, standards » Evaluation
Agriculture, fisheries » Agriculture
Agriculture, fisheries » Cultivation
Development » Development
Innovative change » Alternatives
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Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Sep 29, 2022