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Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics
Author(s): Albert O Aweto (Author)
- Publisher: CABI Publishing
- Publication Date: 16 Nov. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780640439
- ISBN-13: 9781780640433
Book Description
Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation from over the last six decades, including characterizing secondary succession and relating the changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration. This book is essential reading for researchers and students of tropical agriculture and related areas.
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About the Author
Albert Orodena Aweto obtained his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Ibadan, where he is a professor of soil geography and biogeography. His research has focused mainly on soil dynamics and vegetation regeneration in bush fallow, traditional agroforestry, and soil dynamics in monocultural plantations of teak, gmelina, eucalypts and rubber. He has published several papers in over two dozen different scientific journals. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Salford, UK ( 1984/1985) and professor in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana, Gaborone (2000-2002). He was Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan (2005-2008), a member of the International Geographical Union Study Group on Biogeography (2000-2004) and has been listed as a researcher and geography educator in Who’s Who in Nigeria, published by the Nigerian International Biographical Centre, and in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
