Traditional agriculture in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: a human ecology perspective
By: edited by Gerald G. Marten.
Contributors: Marten, Gerald G., 1939-; East-West Environment and Policy Institute (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Traditional farming -- Southeast Asia.; Agricultural ecology -- Southeast Asia.; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southeast Asia.; Human ecology -- Southeast Asia.
Description: Many small-scale farmers in the tropics continue to employ a style of agriculture based largely on practices handed down from previous generations and highly adapted to local conditions. In this book, a group of agronomists, ecologists, and social scientists using a human ecology perspective describe how this traditional agriculture functions. They analyze the interactions between small-scale farmers and the agricultural ecosystems on which they depend, explain why traditional agriculture has been able to function on a sustainable basis for so many years, and discuss the ways in which these farmers are having to adjust their traditional practices to a changing world.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"Published in cooperation with the East-West Center Environment and Policy Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii."