Indigenous Fallow Management
(IFM)
By: Malcolm Cairns, Kurniatun Hairiah, Paul Burgers
Increase economic valueof fallow vegetation
Accelerate soil fertilityto sustain food cropping
Promotion/cultivation of forest products
Integration of livestock
Perennial-annual rotational farming
Dispersed trees on cropland
Cyclical/permanentAgroforest
Shrub-basedfallows
Cover crops/green manure
Imperata grasslands / fallows
Land pressure
No fallow management in traditional shifting cultivation
Permanent annual cropping
Degradation?
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Tree-based improved fallows
Promotion of preferred volunteer species
Imperata cylindrica
Roof thatching
Wild mushrooms at fresh market
Ferns and other species are part of invasive fallow species, and sold with farm produce on a weekly basis in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Shrub-based accelerated fallows
Austroeupatorium inulaefolium
Callopogonium mucunoides
Tithonia diversifolia
Mimosa invisa
Herbaceous legume fallows
Phaseolus carcaratus Roxb.
Extensive root system of Phaseolus carcaratus
Pachyrhizus tuberosus
(Yam bean, Bangkuang)
Yam bean
Mucuna pods
Mucuna pruriens var. utilis climbs over Imperata
Imperata
Tree-based improved fallows
Leucaena leucocephala, West Timor
Alnus nepalensis
Casuarina
Perennial-annual crop rotations
tobacco , cinnamon, coffee, chili
Tectona grandis (Teak)
Paraserianthes falcataria
Styrax tonkinensis
Resin ‘benzoin”
young leaves of Cinnamon
Cinnamon bark
Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry)
Permanent Agroforestry Systems
Alnus nepalensis Tea
Gliricidia
Cacao
Cassava
Coconuts
Flower
Fruits
Integration of livestockin fallow systems
Gmelina arborea
Grass + LCC (Callopogonium)
Tithonia fallow: fodder for goats
improved fallow of Leucaena leucocephala, fixes nitrogen for crops, and is a high quality fodder.