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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Swidden agriculture. Swidden agriculture. Information about Swidden agriculture in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Swidden agriculture)
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Shifting cultivation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For methods, see slash and burn Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned. This system often involves clearing of a piece of ...
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The groups who practice swidden agriculture are not, as is often thought, nomadic. Rather they are located in one place, but move their plots over limited areas, using lands to which they have traditional rights, and return to the original plot after several years - anything between five to fifteen years.
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Also known as "shifting cultivation", "swidden agriculture", or simply "jhum", slash and burn is an ancient form of agriculture practiced by between 200 and 500 million people around the world today (2006). The two key components of slash and burn agriculture are the use of fire to prepare fields for cultivation and...
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Swidden agriculture is highly destructive to the forest environment, because it entails shifting from old to new plots of land to allow exhausted soil to rejuvenate, a process that is estimated to require at least four to six years.
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First, reliance on swidden agriculture clearly not due to environmental ignorance: ... 2. French colonists in Indochina taxed peasants; end of colonial taxation led to shift to swidden agriculture from more intensive forms of agriculture in some cases...
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Para rubber cultivation in a system of swidden agriculture in Indonesian Borneo. ... Rubber integrates well into Bornean systems of swidden agriculture: the ...
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(KudoZ) English to Portuguese translation of slash-and-burn agriculture / swidden agriculture / Fallowing [URGENT]: cultura sobre queimada / agricultura itinerante. ... slash-and-burn agriculture / swidden agriculture / Fallowing [URGENT]
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Indigenous peoples have lived in the Amazon for thousands of years. For most of that time, they hunted, fished, and grew a variety of crops in small gardens. Their lifestyle was called subsistence, because they hunted and grew only what they needed to subsist, ... They practiced a kind of agriculture called slash and burn.
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