Sustainability appraisal of shifting cultivation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-123

  Borggaard, Ole K ^a   Gafur, Abdul ^b   Petersen, Leif ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Soil Conserv and Management Centre   (Bangladesh)

^c Kampsax International A/S ^*  (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION CONTROL; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL EROSION; SUSTAINABILITY;

BANGLADESH; CHITTAGONG HILL TRACT;

EID: 0037365193     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.2.118     Document Type: Article

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20. Valuable part of field data collection through questionnaires was conducted under the supervision of Mr. Kamrul Islam, Principle Scientific Officer, Cotton Research Center, Banderban. The efforts of the field assistants working at the Upazila level are highly acknowledged. Many of the laboratory analyses were conducted at the SRDI laboratories at Dhaka and Comilla. Special thanks are due to all the tribal farmers who made it possible to complete the questionnaires and offered free access to their Jhum fields for our research workers. We also acknowledge the financial support of DANIDA, Denmark and SRDI, Bangladesh.
21. First submitted 26 July 2001. Accepted for publication after revision 24 April 2002.