Additionally, the practice of shifting cultivation, with millets, legumes, and vegetables grown in the forest environment, has been central to their food security. Over the years, this forest-farm ...

Daspalla: A massive fire is ripping through the forests under Daspalla forest range in Nayagarh district, even as awareness about dangers of shifting cultivation and collection of mahua flowers is ...

This includes shifting cultivation, typically undertaken by subsistence farmers, whereby forests are cleared for farming to meet the demands of a growing population. Global trade and weak governance ...

However, biodiversity is under threat from a range of anthropogenic activities – habitat destruction, expansion of agriculture, shifting cultivation, filling up of wetlands, introduction of alien ...

These instances highlight the recurring clash between development aspirations and forest conservation, and draw attention to the rapidly ... below this ad In hilly areas of the northeast, shifting ...