Although the LUPE project has increased the use of chemical inputs , it has been environmentally advantageous , since it has deterred farmers from slash and burn . The damages from chemical inputs are minor compared with those of soil ...

For example , in developing countries , millions of rural poor are forced to use slash - and - burn techniques and to overexploit natural resources to survive , causing considerable harm to the environment . Developed countries , on the ...

The systemwide Alternatives to Slash and Burn Programme , for example , has established that about 70 tons of carbon are sequestered by complex multistrata systems in the humid tropics ( ASB , 1998 ) . A ton of sequestered carbon ...

... common tendency to identify the poor " campesinos " expelled from his " minifundio " or from areas incorporated into mechanized agriculture , as the agent who invades the virgin land and destroys the forest using slash and burn .

Opportunities in Rural Poverty Alleviation Gary N. Howe, David Goodman ... On the frontier , slash - and - burn agriculture followed by conversion to pasture is the traditional form of land use . Table 18.

Slash and burn: Farming in the third World forest. Moscow: Universtity of Idaho Press. Poffenberger. M. 1990. Keepers of the forest: Land management alternatives in Southeast Asia. West Hartford. Connecticut: Kumarian Press.

... if the small . farmer is ever to escape his cycle of poverty ; and the forests of the American tropics are to endure . ... practices ( e.g. slash and burn , short fallow ) that require a minimum of capital , and / or labor inputs .

Small farmers slash and burn 1 or 2 hectares of forest and grow a monocultural crop of rice . The second crop is usually an intercropped combination of maize , cassava , plantain and pineapple after which the fields are abandoned to ...

Small farmers slash and burn 1 or 2 hectares of forest and grow a monocultural crop of rice . The second crop is usually an intercropped combination of maize , cassava , plantain and pineapple after which the fields are abandoned to ...

The demands of a rural population living in extreme poverty must be satisfied . ... Profiles The following are some of the results expected : a ) reduction of slash - and - burn agriculture ; b ) soil conservation ...