Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India /
editor, Sumi Krishna.
- xiv, 420 pages :
- Transition in Northeastern India .
Part I: Aspects of a Changing Environment -- 1 Floods and fields in the Brahmaputra valley: 20th-century changes in historical perspective -- 2 Relation of the traditional economic system and ecology: The case of a Naga community -- 3 Why do jhumiyas jhum? Managing change in shifting cultivation areas in the uplands of northeastern India -- 4 A dying lake: Food security versus 'development' -- Loktak, Manipur 5 Land, environmental degradation and conflicts in northeastern India -- Part II: Gender Dimensions of Farming -- 6 Livelihood diversification: Farming, forest-use and gender in northeastern India -- 7 Gender dynamics in agro-biodiversity conservation in Sikkim and Nagaland -- 8 Gender, food security and rice farming in Tripura -- 9 Mizoram's rice economy and gender relations -- 10 Gender ideologies and the 'price' of rice in northeastern India -- Part III: Search for Alternatives -- 11 Integrated rubber farming and livelihood systems in northeastern India 12 Organic farming in the northeastern hill regions -- 13A The potential of horticultural interventions for livelihood enhancement and biodiversity conservation in Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh -- 13B Rhododendron conservation and squash production: A case study from Arunachal Pradesh -- 14 Community-based approaches to local natural resource management --
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Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
Agriculture--Environmental aspects--India, Northeastern. Women in agriculture--India, Northeastern.