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Publication Date
2005
Location
Dublin Ireland
Description
In the late 1800s/early 1900s, population increases, slash and burn cropping, wildfires, livestock, and weeds led to extensive losses of natural vegetation and land degradation in the semi-arid islands of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, E Indonesia. In the 1930s-60s, villagers, government institutions and NGOs recognized the need to reduce degradation and increase production. They developed and promoted more sustainable fallow systems, based on the use of leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala), introduced several centuries earlier from central America.
Citation
Piggin, C. and Nulik, Jacob, "Leucaena: Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Systems in Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Indonesia" (2005). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 424.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/themeA/424)
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Leucaena: Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Systems in Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Indonesia
Dublin Ireland
In the late 1800s/early 1900s, population increases, slash and burn cropping, wildfires, livestock, and weeds led to extensive losses of natural vegetation and land degradation in the semi-arid islands of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, E Indonesia. In the 1930s-60s, villagers, government institutions and NGOs recognized the need to reduce degradation and increase production. They developed and promoted more sustainable fallow systems, based on the use of leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala), introduced several centuries earlier from central America.
