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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

Human–wildlife conflict and farmland transfer under informal land institutions: Evidence from rural China

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human–wildlife conflict (HWC) affects not only agricultural production but also how farming households adjust access to and use of land. Existing research has focused largely on welfare losses and land‐use responses, while little is known about whether ecological risk is associated with the governance arrangements through which farmland is ...
Xinrui Wang, Xian Liang, Bo Zhai, Yi Xie
wiley   +1 more source

Children and adolescents across 23 communities learn about animals in diverse environments and through multiple activities

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's interactions with animals shape their understanding of the biological world and humans' place in it. Understanding where children report they encounter and gain their knowledge of animals can provide insight into the early experiences that help shape human attitudes and connections to nature. To date, there is limited information on
Karri Neldner   +47 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Farming Enough in Mountain Areas? Farm Diversification in the Pyrenees

Land Use Policy, 2011
The continuity of farming in mountain areas in Europe is at severe risk and its future faces manifold uncertainties. Mountain farms are immersed in a long-term process of reorganization. Farm diversification plays a prominent role in this process of adjustment and reallocation.
María josé Milán   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Geolocation and Monitoring Platform for Extensive Farming in Mountain Pastures

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015
Nowadays, interconnected ubiquitous objects are more and more present in different applications as a technical solution to collect, every time and everywhere, great amounts of data which are accessible through the Internet. One interesting area of application is the monitoring of cattle, in order not only to improve the farming working conditions but ...
Alvaro Llaria   +3 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Agrobiodiversity in Mountain Territories: Family Farming and the Challenges of Social-Environmental Changes

open access: yes, 2022
Family farming plays a fundamental role in food production. However, it faces rapid processes of social-environmental change, such as the application of hegemonic agrarian modernization policies and restrictions on the circulation of traditional seeds ...
Carla Marchant Santiago   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The Mountain Farm

2021
Hand coloured photoengraved print by Jack B. Yeats titled 'The Mountain Farm'. The print depicts a thatched cottage on the sea front with animals and a mound of turf on the left hand side, a boat in the foreground, and mountains in the background on the right hand side. The print is listed in 'The Different Worlds of Jack B.
openaire   +1 more source

Sustainability of Mountainous Farming Systems

2008
Various ethnic minority groups living in the mountainous regions of northern Thailand have been engaged in agriculture there for several decades. Over the last two decades, there has been a trend towards permanent settlements. Former opium growing farmers, such as the Hmong, have settled down permanently and have abandoned their traditional shifting ...
Jürgen Zeddies, Nicole Schönleber
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Forts and Farms on Margam Mountain Glamorgan

Antiquity, 1934
The progress of archaeology in Britain, as elsewhere, depends on excavation. This is a commonplace; but a more leisurely approach to that final arbitrament than is usually adopted would, we think, be advantageous. Until an area is studied, its visible antiquities planned, the evidence afforded by their geographical and topographical relationships ...
null Cyril, Aileen Fox
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Agricultural engineering in the ecological mountain farms

2005
Mountains and hilly regions in Poland are very important for Polish economy because they do not only account for 8% of Polish territory, but also fulfil a significant role in environmental protection of water supply for the rivers, in tourism and in the ecological chain of plants and animals.
Jucherski, Andrzej   +5 more
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