雲南刀耕火種(焼畑農耕)民の生存戦略(<特集>雲南およびその周辺)

Abstract

In China's Yunnan, there are 26 ethnic groups of people, most of whom used to be swiddeners. In recent decades, owing to the continuing growth of population, drastic social changes, and other reasons, it has become increasingly difficult to practise swidden cultivation. To sustain their livelihood, the people have to resort to reform. The present report, a result of field surveys, summarizes eight strategies of Yunnan's swiddening peoples in their utilization of forest resources and their solution to the inadequacy crisis of such resources. These strategies are undoubtedly of great use for us to understand Yunnan's changes in swidden cultivation and its development trends in the future.