slash-and-burn agriculture
Jungle farming method
Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method where forest or vegetation is cut down, dried, and burned to clear land for planting.
The ash provides nutrients for crops, but soil fertility declines after a few seasons, prompting farmers to move on and repeat the cycle elsewhere.
The practice is ancient and still common in tropical regions.
Slash-and-burn agriculture has contributed to deforestation in the Amazon.
- shifting cultivationMigratory crop-growing practice
- fallowingLeaving cropland unplanted
- fallow periodUnproductive interval for recovery
- indigenous knowledgeLocally transmitted ancestral understanding
- indigenous peoplesOriginal inhabitants of lands
deforestation · soil fertility · desertification · carbon emissions · subsistence farming · biodiversity loss · traditional farming · swidden · habitat destruction · soil erosion · intercropping · forest fires · food security · land clearing · dry season · climate change · monoculture · regenerative farming
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Farming preserving long-term productivity
permaculture · sustainable farming · organic farming · agroecology · agroforestry
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Trees integrated with farming
intensive agriculture · forest preservation · reforestation · afforestation · rewilding
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