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Christine Padoch
Researcher at New York Botanical Garden
Publications - 82
Citations - 5590
Christine Padoch is an academic researcher from New York Botanical Garden. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shifting cultivation & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 82 publications receiving 5147 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Padoch include Center for International Forestry Research.
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Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment
Nathalie van Vliet,Ole Mertz,Andreas Heinimann,Tobias Langanke,Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Birgit Schmook,Cristina Adams,Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt,Peter Messerli,Stephen J. Leisz,Jean-Christophe Castella,Lars N. Jorgensen,Torben Birch-Thomsen,Cornelia Hett,Thilde Bech-Bruun,Amy Ickowitz,Kim Chi Vu,Kono Yasuyuki,Jefferson Fox,Christine Padoch,Wolfram Dressler,Alan D. Ziegler +22 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10-15 years in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes with access to local, national and international markets that encourage cattle production and cash cropping, including bio-fuels.
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Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences
Ole Mertz,Christine Padoch,Jefferson Fox,Rob Cramb,Stephen J. Leisz,Nguyen Thanh Lam,Tran Duc Vien +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the FAO Staff through its forestry journal Unasylva issued an "appeal...to governments, research centers, associations and private persons who are in a position to help" (FAO Staff 1957).
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Appreciating Agrodiversity: A Look at the Dynamism and Diversity of Indigenous Farming Practices
TL;DR: In this paper, a look at the dynamism and diversity of Indigenous Farming practices is presented, with a focus on the relationship between food diversity and sustainability in the field of sustainable agriculture.
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Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review
Marco Pautasso,Guntra A. Aistara,Adeline Barnaud,Sophie Caillon,Pascal Clouvel,Oliver T. Coomes,Marc Delêtre,Elise Demeulenaere,Paola De Santis,Thomas F. Döring,Ludivine Eloy,Laure Emperaire,Eric Garine,Isabelle Goldringer,Devra I. Jarvis,Hélène Joly,Christian Leclerc,Selim Louafi,Pierre Martin,François Massol,Shawn McGuire,Doyle McKey,Christine Padoch,Clélia Soler,Mathieu Thomas,Sara Tramontini +25 more
TL;DR: The role of seed exchange networks in the preservation and adaptation of crop specific and genetic diversity is discussed in this article, where the authors advocate a diversity of approaches to foster the creation of robust and policy-relevant knowledge.
Insight, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia
Christine Padoch,Eduardo S. Brondizio,Sandra da Costa,Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez,Robin R. Sears,Andrea D. Siqueira +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia to find that rural-urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process.