The early growth spurt, followed by a decline in growth-rate, fits patterns observed in other indigenous tree plantations with minimal silvicultural management (Pardy et al. [1992]).
This adversely affect the increase of multi-purpose and indigenous tree plantation and ago-forestry practice and hence has a vicious circle with food security.
Qiu et al. (1992) reported that almost one thousand bamboo species are found in Asia, predominantly indigenous rather than plantation or introductions.
As we gained elevation, savanna gave way to lush farmland, conifer plantations, and indigenous forest.
In 1950, the Duterte family moved to Davao, a frontier town of plantations and indigenous tribes that was settled by American military veterans.
The Chipko movement also gave visibility to two main complaints of local people: commercial felling by contractors damages a wide variety of species of trees, and it replaces valuable, multispecies indigenous forests with monoculture plantations of teak and eucalyptus.
With plantations of indigenous fodder trees in the hillsides, the interests of both landowners (tenure, rent) and landless herders (availability of fodder from trees and shrubs) can be achieved.
It may be that the surrounding, established plantation of indigenous species at DK generated a favourable microclimate for kauri growth.
They also agreed on the value of slave labor to supplement indigenous labor in mines and plantations.
Chronicling the stories of indigenous people who labored on plantations and in mines, Reséndez corrects a blind spot in our understanding of North American history and illuminates mechanisms by which present-day versions of the practice endure.
