Farming Practices and Sustainable Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts — edited by Niaz Ahmed Khan, M. Khairul Alam and Sudibya K. Khisa

A peer-reviewed collection of articles on hill farming and sustainable development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, with a foreword by the anthropologist Paul Sillitoe of Durham University.

What the book covers

• Shifting (jum) cultivation and other farming practices within indigenous knowledge systems
• Upland development, innovation and the adoption of introduced farming technologies
• Smallholder fisheries, bee keeping, and bamboo, rattan and medicinal herb plantations
• Policy and governance of natural resources, and the environmental effects of development
• Soil and water conservation technologies