Slash-and-burn, or "swidden," agriculture - clearing patches of woodland for crops and moving on after each harvest to allow the soil to replenish itself - is usually seen as a crude antecedent to the more intensive farming practiced in the lowlands and most of the developed world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

These are the farmering households that practice swidden farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Their parents bring them to the forest farm in performing the swidden farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

On the average, the swidden/farm is used for four years before it is abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

The early inhabitants lived by swidden farming of nutrient-demanding crops such as yams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yap tropical dry forests] Reference

Farmers of these non-irrigated farmlands are applying the patch cultivation, or swidden farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Identify the different factors associated with patch cultivation/swidden farming in Barangay Magao-gao.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

In the final analysis, this factor does not have any significance on the farmers particularly in their swidden farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

The industrial agriculturist does not simply go out to the swidden plot by his village and eat a fruit from the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary the teacher] Reference

Secondary forest on areas of former swidden agriculture are found in the Mae Chan Valley and central uplands towards the east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand] Reference

Para – Collecting and clearing of unburned tree trunks and their branches for consumption of the farmers in his swidden farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Many maintain a traditional swidden agriculture, with hunter-gathering and trading in artefacts; some today also live on mining and tourism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference

However, after an intensive and persuasive interview among the respondents, other factors played a big role in the practice of swidden farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

In the swidden agricultural system in Barangay Magao-gao, the individual does not exercise his right over a piece of land he occupies for the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Ethnolinguistic diversity in the archipelago was considerable, and modes of living ranged from swidden agriculture to fishing and wet rice cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. The Philippines, 1500-1800] Reference

The study aimed to find out the different factors associated with patch cultivation/swidden farming system practiced by the farmers of Barangay Magao-gao.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Mature forest cut for swidden agriculture generally is succeeded in this ecoregion by a grassy subclimax that supports far fewer species than the mature forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests] Reference

Based on the findings of this study, it was found out that the factor on culture and tradition was the immensely cause of swidden farming in Barangay Magao-gao.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

A more intensive interview was conducted via re-interview of the respondents on labor as big factor in swidden farming to satisfy some doubts of the researchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Much of the former area of broadleaf evergreen forest has been converted to grasslands or savannas under the heavy impact of human overexploitation and swidden agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Indochina subtropical forests] Reference

The Highland Peoples have a special relationship to their land, and their livelihood depends directly on swidden cultivation and the collection of non-timber forest products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Thomas Hammarberg Report on Human Rights] Reference

These households and communities surrounded the national park supplement their livelihood through the gathering of rattan and almaciga (resin) and practicing swidden agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Philippines] Reference

They ventured into the system to establish right over their agricultural crops not as stable land owners or of having possession right over specific swidden sites that they put into production.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

The earliest European explorers to penetrate the area found a relatively small population of swidden agriculturalists, who moved their villages every few years as the soil around them was depleted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Also known as "shifting cultivation", "swidden agriculture", or simply "jhum", slash and burn is an ancient form of agriculture practiced by between 200 and 500 million people around the world today (2006).    From Wordnik.com.  [Slash and burn] Reference

Reconstruction of pristine forest structure and composition has been made very difficult by the high degree of landscape degradation that has taken place, much of it as the result of swidden agricultural practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Annamites montane rain forests] Reference

It was found out in two ways: first, respondents answered that they can save a lot in swidden farming, wherein labor performed by farmers who do not have uma is much cheaper at a cost of only fifty pesos per task performed in a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

As Kalingas seek basic necessities to support themselves, they endeavor cooperatively especially in the practice of swidden farming, not to mention that the practice entails a lot of individuals to perform cutting and felling of big trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES] Reference

Hill slopes support more native forest than the lowland areas, and the hill forests of southern Thailand are relatively intact, although swidden (slash-and-burn) agriculture is still practiced in some hill areas in the northern part of the ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests] Reference

In the past, various approaches to permit regeneration such as leaving lands to fallow or the abandonment of swidden plots (slash and burn) for periods of 3 - 10 years were used to permit the regeneration of plant and animal life and rebuild the organic matter status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

There are at least seven different tribes in and around GLNP, with their own languages and cultures from the Aceh and Gayo muslim farmers in the north, Batak highland farmers and Pakpak hunters and swidden hill farmers to the Alas, Singhil and Melayu rice farmers and fishermen of the lowlands mixed with Javanese once imported by the Dutch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia] Reference

Orphan trees forest - Why Ntumu farmers ofern Cameroon protect trees swidden fields?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Slash and burn or swidden agriculture by these peoples attest to a more pastoral/horticultural civilization than the hunter-gatherers they once upon a time were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference

Despite widespread perception among authorities that "swidden cultivation is a destructive system that leads only to forest loss and degradation", the researchers found that the transition to industrial plantations has not necessarily been a boon to the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

They argue that many species currently at risk from habitat loss will not go extinct in the end and instead will benefit from the projected abandonment of agricultural lands and subsequent regrowth of secondary forest in the absence of rural farmers practicing swidden agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

The principal vegetation types, and their estimated cover is as follows: hill evergreen forest (54,900 ha); dry evergreen forest (112,900 ha); mixed deciduous forest (164,100 ha); dry dipterocarp forest (3,600 ha); savanna forest (9,900 ha); grassland (3,900 ha); and areas of swidden agriculture (15,400 ha).    From Wordnik.com.  [Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand] Reference

97 of the 125 forest fires, 38 percent were started by cigarettes, 18 percent from herders, 5 percent by cleaning supplies, 3 percent in landfills, 3 percent from swidden fields, 1 percent by hunters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkishdailynews Headlines] Reference