Analysis of the economic benefits from systematic improvements to shifting cultivation and its evolution towards stable continuous agroforestry in the upland of Eastern Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper indicates that agroforestry may not only be good for (agro)biodiversity and sustainability, but has a good economic rate of return. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to analyse data.

Citation

Rahman, S.; Rahman, M.F.; Codilan, A.L.; Farhana, K.M. Analysis of the economic benefits from systematic improvements to shifting cultivation and its evolution towards stable continuous agroforestry in the upland of Eastern Bangladesh. International Forestry Review (2007) 9 (1) 536-547. [DOI: 10.1505/ifor.9.1.536]

Analysis of the economic benefits from systematic improvements to shifting cultivation and its evolution towards stable continuous agroforestry in the upland of Eastern Bangladesh

Published 1 January 2007