Shifting cultivation and intensive wet rice farming

With your Human Environments NAB assessment coming up at the end of October, you might like to devote a little of your time over the holiday to revising the agricultural systems which you have already studied with Mrs W in the Rural section of the course.....First up... shifting cultivation. Remember that as well as understanding the features and landscapes associated with the farming systems which you are studying, you have to be able to comment on rural change. Thus for shifting cultivation you have to understand the implications of, for example, deforestation on the farming system.

A good starting point for revision would be the BBC Higher Geography Bitesize revision pages on shifting cultivation which you can find here .

You have also been looking at intensive wet rice cultivation. If you click on the image to the left, it will link you to an excellent page of information about wet rice farming - especially aspects of 'change' mentioned above.

One of the case studies on the Farming and Countryside Education website is rice farming in the Phillipines. Click here to link to it.

And finally, the BBC Scotland Higher Bitesize website also has a section on the impact of the Green Revolution on rice farming.

P.S. Don't forget to keep looking at the Geog department blog at www.gmpay.blogspot.com where there is plenty of general geographical interest to read about.