Kurniatun Hairiah, Sonya Dewi, Fahmuddin Agus, Sandra Velarde, Andree Ekadinata, Subekti Rahayu and Meine van Noordwijk

This Manual is an update from the 2001 “Alternatives to Slash and Burn” lecture notes. The current version of this Manual represents the next step in a process that started in the early 1990s when the Alternative to Slash and Burn (ASB) program started efforts to collect consistent data across the humid tropics (Palm et al., 2005). With growing interest in the topic, other manuals and guidelines have been developed by various organizations, but most focus on ‘forest’ and few deal with the full range of land use types that are found in most forest-derived landscapes.