Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable Methods for Tropical Agriculture

By H. David Thurston

This informative overview and analysis of slash/mulch practices from around the world, particularly from the tropics, shows that they have generally shortened the necessary fallow periods and have restored degraded soils, thus increasing or stabilizing yields. These improvements, in turn, have allowed small-scale, resource-poor farmers to compete more effectively with larger commercial farmers and have enabled subsistence farmers to achieve food security.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853393401
• ISBN13: 9781853393402
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"