shifting cultivation
Rotating forest agriculture
Shifting cultivation is a farming method where land is cleared, cultivated until soil fertility declines, then abandoned to regenerate while farmers move to a new plot.
Also called slash-and-burn agriculture, it remains common in tropical regions: The hillsides showed patches of shifting cultivation at various stages of regrowth.
The practice sustains small populations but degrades forests when population pressure shortens fallow periods.
- slash-and-burnPrimitive clearing method
- swiddenBurned forest farmland
- fallowUnplanted field recovering
- food gardensAreas for cultivating edibles
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
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- farming methodsintercropping, polyculture, mixed farming, companion planting, strip cropping
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- land stewardshipland stewardship, forest stewardship, forest management, wildlife management, sustainable harvest
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Tiered hillside agriculture
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High-input, high-output cultivation
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