Shifting Cultivation

Following up on his previous blog post, Zsolt Pinke writes that the drought situation demands an urgent solution to the European agriculture and the recharge of soil moisture. The latest drought map published by the flagship journal of European agronomy draws attention to the most critical areas in Europe, which includes Ukraine, France and other important grain exporters of Central Europe. Post includes a one-minute animation of the July droughts in Europe based on the maps of EDO JRC.

Related Nodal Office(s): European Nodal Office   Related Working Group(s): Shifting Cultivation in Transition, Related Working Group(s): Agricultural Land Abandonment as a Global Land-Use Change Phenomenon

In a recent paper in Geoforum, Wolfram Dressler and authors have shown how, in Southeast Asia, the presence of cleared and burned forests has long evoked deep emotions, symbolism and representations that powerfully inform the governance of forests and upland peoples. This blog post examines their field research in more depth to provide additional perspectives on the paper.

Related Working Group(s): Shifting Cultivation in Transition