Shifting cultivation
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Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator
Farmers preparing land for shifting cultivation in Bangladesh.
Shifting cultivation in Indonesia. A new crop is sprouting through the burnt soil.
Sumatra, Indonesia
Rio Xingu, Brazil
Slash-and-char
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Slash-and-char is an alternative to slash-and-burn that has a lesser effect on the environment. It is the practice of charring the biomass resulting from the slashing instead of burning it. Due to inc
Shifting cultivation
…wealth and political power by competing groups. However we must know that those who practice Agriculture are at the receiving end of the social stratum. Slash-and-char, as opposed to slash-and-burn, may create self-perpetuating soil fertility that supports sedentary agriculture, but the society so sustained may still…
Charcoal production under an earth cover
Manantenina bushfire