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1. Managing Africa's Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods ••••
Book - Identifies and analyses a range of indigenous forest management practices in dryland Africa, to encourage the forestry profession to take more account of them in planning forest management
  ...Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods1998 Gill Shepherd Identifies and analyses a range of indigenous forest management practices...
88% Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:49:14 GMT http://www.odifpeg.org.uk/publications/books/matdf/...

2. The Value of Indigenous Fruit-Bearing Trees in Miombo Woodland Areas of South-Central Africa ••••
RDFN 15c-ii - By comparing a number of case studies from central Africa, this paper identified a continuum in the pattern of fruit trees in cultivated miombo landscapes, from abundant natural woodland with some planted exotics, to retention of fruit trees during clearance and, finally, to domestication of wild fruit trees in the most...
  ...RDFN 15c-ii The Value of Indigenous Fruit-Bearing Trees in Miombo Woodland Areas of South-Central Africa1993 James Packham By comparing a number of...
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3. Managing Africa’s Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods (Manejo de los bosques tropicales secos de África: Un estudio de los métodos indígenas) ••••
Libros - En este libro se identifica y analiza una gama de prácticas indígenas de manejo forestal en las tierras secas de África, con el objetivo de motivar a los profesionales de la silvicultura a tomarlas más en consideración a la hora de planificar el manejo forestal
  ...Managing Africa’s Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods (Manejo de los bosques tropicales secos de África: Un estudio de los métodos...
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4. Managing Africa’s Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods (Aménager les forêts tropicales arides d’Afrique : examen des méthodes autochtones) ••••
Cahiers - Identifie et analyse un éventail de pratiques autochtones d’aménagement forestier en Afrique des terres sèches, afin d’encourager la filière forestière à mieux en tenir compte lors de l’organisation de l’aménagement forestier
  ...Managing Africa’s Tropical Dry Forests: A Review of Indigenous Methods (Aménager les forêts tropicales arides d’Afrique : examen des méthodes...
82% Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:51:22 GMT http://www.odifpeg.org.uk/francais/publications/books/...

5. Forest Farmers: A Case Study of Traditional Shifting Cultivation in Honduras
RDFN 21a - Agriculture is often blamed for deforestation, but some indigenous peoples have cultivated crops inside tropical forests without degradation for thousands of years
  ...Paul House Agriculture is often blamed for deforestation, but some indigenous peoples have cultivated crops inside tropical forests without degradation...
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6. Controls and Sanctions Over the Use of Forest Products in the Kafue River Basin of Zambia •••
RDFN 15a - The Tonga people have dwelt in the Kafue river basin in Zambia for at least a thousand years
  ...considerable pool of indigenous knowledge to cope with outside influences. Keywords: community forestry/co-management, indigenous knowledge, joint...
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7. The Challenge of Social Forestry Extension Work in Pastoral Africa •••
RDFN 12e - Project documents may give weight to local participation and facilitatory extension, but all too often financial and other support are lacking
  ...of recognising the distinctive ecology of drylands, building on indigenous practices and giving projects the foundations to perpetuate themselves once...
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8. The Effects of Sedentarization on Agriculture and Forest Resources in Southern Venezuela •••
RDFN 16b - Itinerant indigenous peoples in Venezuela increasingly moved to permanent settlements during the last quarter of the twentieth century
  ...Mary Melnyk Itinerant indigenous peoples in Venezuela increasingly moved to permanent settlements during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Using...
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9. Towards a Practical Classification of Slash-and-Burn Agricultural Systems •••
RDFN 21c - This paper proposed a simple working scheme to distinguish different types of slash-and-burn agriculture
  ...fallow. The most commonly reported type was secondary forest cleared by indigenous people with a medium to long fallow (more than three years) leading to...
76% Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:54:35 GMT http://www.odifpeg.org.uk/publications/rdfn/21/c.html

10. Trees and Pastoralists: The Case of the Pokot and Turkana •••
RDFN 6b - This paper argued that the traditional values and practices of the semi-nomadic Pokot and Turkana peoples of Kenya provided an excellent basis for institutional efforts to sustain the pastoralists' semi-arid environments
  ...indigenous strategies and strengthen local rights of tenure. Keywords: access, common property resources, degradation, education/extension,...
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