Table of Contents

1: The Tropics 2: Shifting Cultivation: Definition, Basic Features and Types 3: Soil Dynamics during Cropping 4: Soil Dynamics during the Fallow Period 5: Fallow Vegetation Dynamics 6: Relationships between Fallow Soil and Vegetation 7: Ecological Succession Theory and Models 8: Theory and Models of Soil Fertility Restoration under Bush Fallow 9: Intensification of Shifting Cultivation 10: Alternative Farming Systems and the Future of Shifting Cultivation

About the Author

Albert Orodena Aweto obtained his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Ibadan, where he is a professor of soil geography and biogeography. His research has focused mainly on soil dynamics and vegetation regeneration in bush fallow, traditional agroforestry, and soil dynamics in monocultural plantations of teak, gmelina, eucalypts and rubber. He has published several papers in over two dozen different scientific journals. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Salford, UK ( 1984/1985) and professor in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana, Gaborone (2000-2002). He was Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan (2005-2008), a member of the International Geographical Union Study Group on Biogeography (2000-2004) and has been listed as a researcher and geography educator in Who's Who in Nigeria, published by the Nigerian International Biographical Centre, and in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering.