Shifting Cultivation and Carbon Stocks

The conversion of ______ cultivation to continuous annual cropping systems brings about substantial losses of time-averaged aboveground carbon stocks.

Under continuous annual cropping, the carbon stock is only ______ to 4 t/ha.

The ______ agroforestry systems, including traditional long fallow shifting cultivation, has a higher carbon sequestration capacity.

The rotational ______ system may be promoted as a viable option for development of the shifting cultivation system.

There is a lack of information on the effect of varying ______ period on the carbon stock throughout the soil profile.

The transition from the long-fallow ______ cultivation to short-fallow shifting cultivation has been claimed to be unavoidable.

The carbon stock can be increased by ______ times by prolonging the cycles of 8 years.

The ______ cultivation and climate change are interconnected issues.

Maize, mustard, tobacco and other seasonal vegetables were planted in between the trees of ______, Dalbergia sissoo and Tectona grandis (Teak) and harvested the agricultural crops twice a year.

The essence of this system is involving landless poor local villagers as ______ planters and minimize the weeding cost.

______ is mostly limited to small household's subsistence farming.

The major ______ practices include Home gardens, Agri-silviculture, Silvi-pastoral system, and Agro-Silvo-pastoral system.

One of the benefits of ______ is improved year-round production of food and of useful and profitable products.

______ provides protection and improvement of soil and water sources.

______ furnishes shade for vegetable or other crops that require or tolerate it.

One of the benefits of ______ is short-term food production offsetting cost of establishment of trees.

Agroforestry aims to ______ and improve the land.

Agroforestry optimizes the combined production of trees, agricultural crops, and ______.

Agroforestry practices are ______ managed to maintain their productive and protective functions.

Agroforestry management seeks to actively manipulate the ______ and physical interactions between the tree, crop, and animal components.

The goal of agroforestry is to enhance the production of more than one ______ component at a time.

Agroforestry integration may be ______ or vertical, and above- or below-ground.

Agroforestry systems aim to maintain or increase ______ (of preferred commodities as well as productivity of the land).

Agroforestry can improve ______.

If we fail to change our ways, these young men and women will suffer more than we, and they and their children will be denied their fundamental right to a healthy ______ environment.

We must recognize that, because resources are limited, we need a ______ way of life.

The concept of ______ agriculture has brought the concept of sustainable agriculture to the forefront.

The interrelatedness of all the farming systems including the ______ and the family.

Sustainable Agriculture refers to a range of strategies for addressing many ______ that effect agriculture.

Furthermore, “Sustainable” implies a time dimension and the capacity of a farming system to ______ indefinitely.

Sustainable Agriculture refers to an agricultural production and distribution system that ______ the integration of natural biological cycles and controls

Sustainable Agriculture aims to ______ and renew soil fertility and the natural resource base

Sustainable Agriculture reduces the use of ______ resources and purchased production inputs

Sustainable Agriculture promotes ______ in family farming and farm communities

The main goal of Sustainable Agriculture is to ______ produce enough food and fiber and repair the damage caused by the process

Sustainable Agriculture aims to ______ adverse impacts on health, safety, wildlife, water quality and the environment