Rattan: Ecological balance in a borneo rainforest swidden (original) (raw)
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Various agricultural strategies have been tried in swidden areas of tropical rainforest. Some have focused on food production, others on cash crops. Certain strategies have disrupted the ecological balance of the rainforest, while others developed with ecological stability in mind, but rarely have food production and cash cropping been coterminous and maintained ecological stability. Rattan in tropical rainforest swidden of southeastern Borneo is an indigenous system of producing both food and a cash crop without ecological disruption.
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- Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY
Joseph A. Weinstock
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Weinstock, J.A. Rattan: Ecological balance in a borneo rainforest swidden.Econ Bot 37, 58–68 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02859305
- Received: 06 November 1981
- Accepted: 29 May 1982
- Issue date: January 1983
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02859305