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What Is Swidden Agriculture. Noble b Michael L. After one or more harvests a longer fallow period follows which restores the productivity of the land. It is practised in many parts of Asia Africa and South America. A temporary agricultural plot formed by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover.
Sustainable agricultural practices are intended to protect the environment expand the Earths natural resource base and maintain and improve. A temporary agricultural plot formed by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover. 2012 There is a lot of global variation in the underlying drivers of swidden Kull 2000. Ancestral peoples have practiced swidden agriculture sustainably for countless generations maintaining a cycle of cultivation and fallow that was and is appropriate for the land. Why is sustainable agriculture so important. Described swidden cultivation as a suicidal agricultural system based on fire Van Vilet et al.
It is by no means outdated.
2012 There is a lot of global variation in the underlying drivers of swidden Kull 2000. Roderick b a Department of Biology Bandung Institute of Technology ITB Jl. Slash and burn techniques but also terracing and composting. N a land-use system esp in tropical Africa in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes when it is abandoned until this is. Swidden agriculture also called shifting cultivation is the intermittent clearing of forests for staple food-crop production. They had animal husbandry made their own fertilizer fished had household gardens and also practiced swidden agriculture.