Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden...
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Agriculture in Laos (section Slash-and-burn)
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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Na Chornykh Lyadakh (redirect from On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields)
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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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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"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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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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Ash (section Slash-and-burn ash)
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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Deforestation in Madagascar (section Soil and water)
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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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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Schnitt Acht (section Slash and Burn (1992/93))
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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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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Mizoram (category States and union territories of India)
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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management. A controlled burn may also refer to the intentional burning of slash and fuels through burn piles. Controlled burns may also be referred to...
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Peshtigo fire (section Legacy and aftermath)
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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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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Deforestation (redirect from Deforestation and the economy)
February 2020. "slash-and-burn agriculture | Definition & Impacts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 April 2020. "What is Slash and Burn Agriculture"...
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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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Telkkämäki Nature Reserve (redirect from Telkkämäki Slash-and-burn Heritage Farm)
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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Cabécar people (section Slash-and-burn agriculture)
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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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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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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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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Biochar (section Slash-and-char)
unlike slash-and-burn soils, which quickly become depleted of nutrients, forcing farmers to abandon fields, producing a continuous slash-and-burn cycle...
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Jhum (section Technique and crops)
land of trees and other vegetation, burning it, and then cultivating it for a set number of years. Shifting cultivation and slash and burn cultivation are...
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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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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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national and regional awards. Scarpati has produced two books based on his photography: Cramp, Slash, & Burn: When Punk and Glam Were Twins and Eyes Wide...
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