The use of hillside environments for land husbandry : personal reflections

Special issue : Part I

Auteur :
IVES, J.D.

Description :
Author begins by establishing the parameters of mountain and hillside environments : slope angle and altitude. Then he criticizes First and Second world treatment of hillside farmers. He discusses case studies from China, the Central Andes, the Indian Himalaya, the Nepali Himalaya, and the northern Thailand hills. He calls for greater understanding and awareness on the part of those who try to assist poverty-driven but resourceful hillside farmers. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Congrès

Source :
Conference on poverty, rural livelihoods, and land husbandry in hillside environments, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, Royaume-Uni, 1999-01-06, Mountain research and development, issn : 0276-4741, 1999, vol. 19, n°. 3, p. 173-177, Références bibliographiques : 39 ref.

Date :
1999

Editeur :
Pays édition : Japon, Tokyo, United Nations University