Name of the Scheme: Watershed Development Project in Shifting Cultivation Areas (WDPSCA) Sponsored by : Central Government Funding Pattern: 100% Central Assistance to the ...
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Large amount of land was brought under cultivation. Hybrid seeds were introduced. ... Many farmers in India are shifting to organic farming due to the domestic and international ...
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Protecting cultures and identities of India's indigenous peoples ... intellectual property rights and traditional practices like shifting cultivation.
http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2004/31-04.htm

Traditional Pest management among the indigenous tribes shifting cultivation in north east India Documentation & validation (DST-YS Project, Govt. of India)
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Q.1 What is Shifting Cultivation and its extent in the country?. Shifting cultivation (Jhum ... All India Soil and Land Survey has carried out Rapid Reconnaissance Survey ...
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Shifting cultivation in western Africa. - Cattle herding and shifting cultivation in western Africa.
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Shifting cultivation is an agriculture system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily ... “ typically used in dryland farming) Jhum- the term used in North East India
http://vasatwiki.icrisat.org/index.php/Shifting_cultivation

One of the primary threats to the forests is jhum (shifting cultivation), the practice ... As per the Forest Survey of India?s 1999 report, the estimated forest ...
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... quintals of seed cotton or 18.35 million bales (170 kg a bale) due to the shift. ... Commenting on the socio-economic appraisal of Bt cotton cultivation in India, one of the study ...
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Baiga is a tribe found in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states of India. The largest ... Practice of shifting cultivation. The Baiga tribes practice shifting cultivation in forest areas.
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jhumias: The Shifting Cultivation/Jhum Initiative ... policy/download/Documents/CBD_and_forests/Review_Forest-related_Clauses_India ...
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... of legal and governmental regulatory framework discouraging shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayan countries of Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts), Bhutan, India (8 ...
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001004/

With 109 tribes identified as practicing shifting cultivation in India and the Forest Policy 1952 and the National Commission on Agriculture 1976 suggesting that it be banned, this ...
http://www.ifpindia.org/Tribal-Groups-and-Development.html

With 109 tribes identified as practicing shifting cultivation in India and the Forest Policy 1952 and the National Commission on Agriculture 1976 suggesting that it be banned, this ...
http://www.ifpindia.org/ecrire/upload/abstracts/thanuja.pdf

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to ... France seeks Gaza truce as Israel presses assault; Obama weighs major tax move; India ...
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Kamat's Potpourri: Kamat Research Database ... Title: Environmental Impact of Shifting Cultivation and its Management: A Case Study of Mizoram, India
http://www.kamat.com/database/?CitationID=10871

RFRI/SC/11: Documentation of baseline information and restoration of selected stress sites under shifting cultivation through agroforestry in NE India
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Raman, T. R. S. (2001) Effect of slash-and-burn shifting cultivation on rainforest birds in Mizoram, northeast India. Conservation Biology, 15, 685-698.
http://www.ncf-india.org/publication.php?type=Journal+Article&title=102

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms. Filed under: Shifting cultivation -- Environmental aspects -- India, Northeastern
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Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms. Filed under: Shifting cultivation -- India
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Agro-forestry in shifting cultivation control programmes in India. E.S. Thangam. About 7000 B.C., according to the archaeological evidence (Childe 1956) mankind began to change its ...
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80502e/80502E0a.htm

Acronym Finder: WDPSCA stands for Watershed Development Project for Shifting Cultivation Area (India)
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Microsoft Word - Paper_09_Ashish Kumar_India edits by Ashish 060822.doc
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The 'Problem' of Shifting Cultivation in the Garo Hills of North-East India, 1860-1970 Bela Malik Although several alternative critical perspectives on shifting cultivation have ...
http://www.conservationandsociety.org/c_s_1_2-6-Malik.pdf

The tribes of northeast India practicing shifting cultivation or ? jhumming ? have unique and varied community-based fire management traditions.
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/AC798E/ac798e0j.htm

SLASH, BURN, SUSTAIN Jhum cultivation under conflict in the Northeast Shifting cultivation in the Northeast, called jhum, is under stress because of conflicts and ...
http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/jun/agr-jhum.htm

Title: Spatial patterns and processes for shifting cultivation landscape in Garo Hills, India. Author: Kumar, Ashish; Marcot, Bruce G.; Roy, P.S.
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/29644

AGRICULTURE Jhum cultivation under sharper scrutiny Jhum, a traditional form of shifting cultivation common in the North-East, was the focus of a recent international ...
http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/dec/agr-jhum.htm

Jhum: shifting opinions. T.R. SHANKAR RAMAN. OVER three decades ago, P.D. Stracey listed a number of problems caused by slash-and-burn shifting cultivation or jhum as ...
http://www.india-seminar.com/2000/486/486%20raman.htm