Foreword
Messages
From the Editors
Contributors
Acronyms
1. An Overview of Chittagong Hill Tracts
1. 1. Introduction
1. 2. CHT Forests and the Land Use Types
1. 3. CHT Soils
1. 4. Land Degradation and Other Environmental Concerns
1. 4. 1. National Environment Action Plan
1. 4. 2. The Way Ahead for Sustainable Land Management
1. 5. Land Tenure, Use Practices and Policies
1. 5. 1. Broad Land Use Practices in CHT
1. 5. 2. Suggested Policy Measures
1. 6. Institutional Arrangements
1. 7. National Legislation, International Conventions and Customary Forest Right
1. 7. 1. National Legislation
1. 7. 2. International Conventions
1. 7. 3. Customary Forest Rights
2. Conservation Technologies
2. 1. Agroforestry Farming: A Potential Technology for Jhum Cultivators
2. 2. Modified Traditional Jhum Cultivation
2. 3. Goda (Small Earthen Dam for Rainwater Harvesting)

2. 4. Foothill Terraces for Rice Cultivation
2. 5. Teak-Banana and Mixed Fruit Farming
2. 6. Community Based Seepage Water Harvesting
2. 7. Terraced Rice Cultivation Irrigated with Diverted Creek Water
2. 8. Gravity Flow Water Supply System (GFWSS)
2. 9. Productive Homestead Gardening
2. 10. Mouza Reserve(Traditional Village Common Forest)
2. 11. Floriculture: A Potential Technology for Jhum Fallows
2. 12. Furrow Cultivation of Rain-fed HYV Maize
2. 13. Effective Mulching for Root Crop Cultivation on Sloping Land
2. 14. HYV Papaya Cultivation in Gently Sloping Land with Productive Cover Cropping
2. 15. Bio-engineering Measures for Reinforcement of Earthen Dam
2. 16. Sequential Technologies for Transforming Sloping Land into Mixed Fruit Garden
2. 17. Niche Based Leafy Spice Crop on Terraced Flat and Sloping Land
2. 18. Indigenous Ginger Storage for Off-season Income
2. 19. Coppice Management of Gamar (Gmelina arborea): An Innovative Tree Production Practice
2. 20. Innovative Cash Crop Farming Technology
2. 21. Management of Sloping Land with Silvo-fishery Farming Practices
2. 22. Contour Pineapple Cultivation Intercropped with Fruit and Forest Trees
2. 23. Multi-layered Homegardens
2. 24. Fallow Management of Jhum Land with Bamboo Production System

2. 25. Fallow Management of Jhum for Firewood and Timber Tree Production System
2. 26. Differential Sloping Land Management
2. 27. Maximum Utilization of House Cleaves: A Home Space Utilizing Technology
2. 28. Maximum Utilization of Homestead Boundary Lines: A Homestead Space Utilizing Technology
2. 29. Jute-GeoTextile: An Environmental Friendly Technology for Revegetation of Landslide Debris
2. 30. Bamboo and Bamboo Mats for Gully Control
3. Conservation Approaches
3. 1. Documentation and Evaluation Approach to Compare Financial Performance of Agroforestry System with Jhum System
3. 2. Livelihood Approach for Adoption of Agroforestry Farming
3. 3. Indigenous Approach to Rain Water Harvesting
3. 4. Traditional Approach to Jhum Cultivation
3. 5. Traditional Approach to Foothill Terraced Rice Cultivation
3. 6. Innovative Approach to Mixed Timber and Fruit Tree Farming
3. 7. Innovative Extension Approaches for Promoting Appropriate Hill Farming Technologies
3. 8. Innovative Approach to Gravity Flow Water Supply System from Foothill Seepage Water Sources
3. 9. Environmental Awareness and Capacity Building Approach
4. Literature Consulted
5. BANCAT Vision and Mission