Chapter 10

What kind of knowledge and information is needed to convince farmers to use fire as a tool for contributing to sustainability?

What are some of the ways that the different types of fires that occur in natural ecosystems might be combined in order to find useful ways of applying them to agroecosystem management?

Smoke in the atmosphere is often considered wholly undesirable, with new restrictions being placed on smoke-generating activities every day. How would we justify the use of fire in agriculture even though smoke may be one of the byproducts?

Which do you consider to be of greater agroecological significance in management - the abiotic effects of fire or its biotic effects? Explain why.

Under what conditions would it be possible to effectively use fire in diverse, mixed-crop, perennial species cropping systems?