Madagascar aflame: landscape burning as peasant protest, resistance, or a resource management tool?

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The Many Elements of Traditional Fire Knowledge: Synthesis, Classification, and Aids to Cross-cultural Problem Solving in Fire-dependent Systems Around the World (2013, background): “The information ranged in depth and specificity from cursory and tangential (Rodgers 1986) to intensive and highly nuanced (Kull 2002).”
Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar (2004, background): “Degradation of the remaining forests is occurring as a consequence of many factors, most notably logging, slash and burn agriculture (tavy), charcoal production and fuelwood collection (Jolly and Jolly, 1984; Lowry et al., 1997; Kull, 2002).”