The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste

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Autor(a) principal: Maria de Jesus
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Henriques, Pedro Damião de Sousa, Pedro Laranjeira, Narciso, Vanda, Carvalho, Maria Leonor da Silva
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16101
Resumo: In Timor-Leste, shifting cultivation is still carried out as a form of subsistence agriculture. The objectives of this study are to characterise and reveal the socio-economic importance of shifting agriculture for rural communities in Timor-Leste, highlighting its impacts on the environmental sustainability of ecosystems and the solutions to mitigate their negative impacts. In order to do so, a questionnaire survey was applied to farmers in two Sucos in Bobonaro. Shifting agriculture in Timor-Leste is the basis of subsistence in rural areas, done for home consumption, not implying change in home residence and integrated in family and community life. The negative impacts on the goods and services produced by forests are felt by the surveyed farmers through changes in rainfall and spring water, land loss, climate change, reduction of wild animals, plants and products collected in the forests. Therefore, most farmers expressed no intention to increase the area of shifting cultivation.
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title The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
spellingShingle The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
Maria de Jesus
title_short The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
title_full The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
title_fullStr The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
title_full_unstemmed The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
title_sort The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste
author Maria de Jesus
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Henriques, Pedro Damião de Sousa
Pedro Laranjeira
Narciso, Vanda
Carvalho, Maria Leonor da Silva
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Carvalho, Maria Leonor da Silva
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Henriques, Pedro Damião de Sousa
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Carvalho, Maria Leonor da Silva
description In Timor-Leste, shifting cultivation is still carried out as a form of subsistence agriculture. The objectives of this study are to characterise and reveal the socio-economic importance of shifting agriculture for rural communities in Timor-Leste, highlighting its impacts on the environmental sustainability of ecosystems and the solutions to mitigate their negative impacts. In order to do so, a questionnaire survey was applied to farmers in two Sucos in Bobonaro. Shifting agriculture in Timor-Leste is the basis of subsistence in rural areas, done for home consumption, not implying change in home residence and integrated in family and community life. The negative impacts on the goods and services produced by forests are felt by the surveyed farmers through changes in rainfall and spring water, land loss, climate change, reduction of wild animals, plants and products collected in the forests. Therefore, most farmers expressed no intention to increase the area of shifting cultivation.
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