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    Slash-and-burn agriculture is a form of shifting cultivation that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field...
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  • "Slash 'n' Burn" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 16 March 1992 by record label Columbia as the fourth...
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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...
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    Erosion from deforestation is a direct and serious result of slash-and-burn agriculture. Moreover, slash-and-burn cultivation is less productive than wet-field...
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    see Forestry (below) Historically and at present, the primary method for rendering arable land is the slash-and-burn method (also known as "shifting cultivation"...
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    potash and essential nutrients. They are the main fertilizer in slash-and-burn agriculture, which eventually evolved into controlled burn and forest clearing...
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    the developing world, the use of controlled burns in agriculture is often referred to as slash and burn. In industrialized nations, it is seen as one...
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    Orang Asli (category Malay words and phrases)
    and tightly curly hair. Senoi (or Sakai), residing in the central region, were wavy-haired people taller than the Negrito, engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture...
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    late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into farmlands. By the...
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    Shifting cultivation (category Agriculture and the environment)
    slash-and-burn as one element of their farming cycle. Others employ land clearing without any burning, and some cultivators are purely migratory and do...
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    maize cultivation and rain forests in the northeast exploited for tropical hardwoods. Primary causes of forest loss include slash-and-burn for agricultural...
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    Mizoram (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    residing in the state. Mizoram is a highly literate agrarian economy. Slash-and-burn farming, also known as jhum, is the most common form of farming in the...
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  • лядах, On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields) is a Belarusian drama film based on two short stories by Vasil Bykau, "On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields" [be] (Belarusian:...
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    the area. Metsähallitus has been practicing slash-and-burn agriculture at Telkkämäki since 1993. Turnip and rye are typical crops grown on a Telkkämäki...
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    February 2020. "slash-and-burn agriculture | Definition & Impacts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 April 2020. "What is Slash and Burn Agriculture"...
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    front increased the wind speed and several slash-and-burn fires merged. A firestorm ensued. In the words of Gess and Lutz, in a firestorm "superheated...
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    home gardens, slash-and-burn, and plantain cultivation. Cabécar households maintain tropical home gardens with a variety of trees and plants for domestic...
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    utilized the slash-and-burn method for centuries, and the Spanish made few changes in techniques. In the 1980s, most farmers practiced a slash-and-burn type of...
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    timber species such as mahogany, ebony, and rosewood threatens native stands. The traditional slash-and-burn agriculture (tavy) together with population...
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  • farmers who use slash-and-burn agricultural techniques to farm their heavily forested communities. Popular perceptions that slash and burn practices are...
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    split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. The East Slavs practiced "slash-and-burn" agricultural methods which took advantage of...
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    farmers practicing "slash and burn" agriculture are often much more sophisticated agriculturalists than the term "slash and burn" subsistence farmers...
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  • has been proposed as an alternative to the ecological destruction of slash-and-burn farming. When crops are carefully selected, other agronomic benefits...
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    together. Their farming lifestyle was slash-and-burn to clear the grass and trees and to fertilize crops. Hunting and fishing were their primary career for...
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  • their first album Subhuman Minds in 1990. It was followed in 1993 by Slash and Burn. The second album took a musical turn from the industrial dance style...
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    Agriculture in Mesoamerica (category Mesoamerican diet and subsistence)
    to leave fields fallow for a period of time in a milpa cycle, and to use slash-and-burn techniques. Much of the Maya food supply was grown in gardens...
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  • into active composting, fertilizing, and slash and burn farming. Farmers practiced letting their land rest and allowing the wild vegetation to restore...
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    method). Slash-and-burn – the permanent conversion of tropical and subtropicals forests for agricultural purposes. This is most prevalent in tropical and subtropical...
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    around the dry season as slash-and-burn methods are used to clear the forest to make way for agriculture, livestock, logging, and mining, leading to deforestation...
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    examples include oil spills, water pollution, slash and burn deforestation, air pollution, ground fissures, and build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Environmental...
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