The Tropics -- Shifting cultivation: definition, basic features and types -- Soil dynamics during cultivation -- Soil dynamics during the fallow period -- Fallow vegetation dynamics -- Relationships between fallow soil and vegetation -- Ecological succession theory and models -- Theory and models of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow -- Intensification of shifting cultivation -- Alternative farming systems and the future of shifting cultivation

1. Shifting cultivation -- Tropics
2. Plant succession -- Tropics
3. Agriculture -- Tropics