Soil Fertility Matters

A Newsletter on Soil Fertility and Fallow Management in the SEA

Contents of Issue No. 1

About this Newsletter

What is Fallow?

INFORMATION SUPPORT: NEEDS AND INITIATIVES 

What Can We Do Now?

Eduardo E. Queblatin

Information Support for Soil Fertility and Fallow Management Launched in Los Baños, Philippines

Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog and Richard T. Yao

OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIES

Dennis P. Garrity and Chun K. Lai

Fallow Management Strategies in Southeast Asia: Some Benefits and Constraints

Paul Burgers

Soil Management Strategies to Sustain Continuous Crop Production Between Vegetative Contour Strips on Humid Tropical Hillsides

Marco Stark

Fallow Systems in the Philippines: Benefits, Driving Forces, and Diversity

Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog and Richard T. Yao

RESEARCH TOOLS AND INITIATIVES

An Invitation to Join Documentation of Smallholder GMCC Systems in the Tropics

Milton Flores Barahona, Marcel Janssen and Ruud Kortekaas

Fallow Management Initiatives in Vietnam

Chun K. Lai

The Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Programme: An Overview

READINGS, DISCUSSIONS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Suggested Readings on Fallow Management

Information on Indigenous Fallow Management on the Web

A Soil Fertility Kit for the Southeast Asian Uplands

Some Organizations Concerned with Soil Fertility and Fallow Management in the Uplands

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Announcements

Editorial Staff Box

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