Also known as ... Slash and Burn Agriculture Today ... Slash and burn agriculture is particularly important throughout the tropics where, when done properly, it can provide people with a secure source of food and income and has been shown to be sustainable over long periods of time.
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www.eoearth.org/article/slash_and_burn
www.eoearth.org/article/slash_and_burn
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The practice of slash-and-burn agriculture consists of clearing plots from the forest and allowing the cut vegetation to dry, then burning, and finally planting crops in the ashes (Figure 1). Plots are used for a few years and then are gradually abandoned to natural vegetation for fallow periods;
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www.cnr.vt.edu/lsg/intro/S&B.pdf
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An overview of slash and burn agriculture, used by subsistence farmers to provide temporary fertility to the soil by burning plants. This slash and burn overview is from the About.com expert Geography site. ... Geography of Slash and Burn Agriculture...
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USAID is alerting farmers in Madagascar to the dangers of slash-and-burn agriculture, and encourage alternative practices ... USAID is educating local communities about the dangers of slash-and-burn farming. A massive communication campaign was held to encourage rural areas to stop slash-and-burn agriculture.
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www.usaid.gov/stories/madagascar/ss_mdg_slash.html
www.usaid.gov/stories/madagascar/ss_mdg_slash.html
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Slash and burn farming has a long and successful history in lightly populated rainforest areas. Provided farmers can leave the land for long enough to recover fully before returning, it does not destroy rainforest. ... Alternatives to `Slash and Burn' Agriculture, Bolivi...
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www.nri.org/projects/InTheField/bolivia_s_b.htm
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; Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon rain forest of Peru; Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru; Scenery | Deforestation; Image code: manu-Manu_1024_2893 ... Pictures | PERU: PERU: Wildlife | Rainforest | Machu Picchu | Slideshow | Buy prints/high resolution | Subject Index...
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[ Slash & Burn Agriculture ] [ From the Seat of the Bulldozer ] [ Regrowth in a Tropical Rainforest ]; [ Data Collection in the Amazon ] [ Colonization of the Rainforest ] [ Loving the Rainforest to Death ]; ... Image that says Slash and Burn Agriculture.
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www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpslashburn.html
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They practiced a kind of agriculture called slash and burn. ... Slash and burn sounds terribly hard on the environment, but--if done properly--it is one of the most ecologically harmonious methods of cultivation. Farmers clear the land by slashing the trees and bushes, then burning them to release nutrients into the soil.
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www.eduweb.com/agriculture/ag1.html
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Slash-and-burn agriculture often follows soon after the natural tropical forest has been commercially logged, mostly because the network of logging roads that is constructed allows access to the otherwise almost impenetrable forest interior.
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