swidden

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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.

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  • 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. —  Mongabay.com News
  • Orphan trees forest - Why Ntumu farmers ofern Cameroon protect trees swidden fields? —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Research by others with subjects who practice swidden agriculture also revealed that low WHR was not preferred. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Clearly, the reduction in the use of swidden techniques associated with tavy farming (a practice that is now illegal in Madagascar) is important to preserve forest habitat and the biodiversity housed in it, but effective long-term strategies will need to account for the role of markets in the establishment and agricultural practices of migrant households. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • (05/21/2009) Policies promoting industrial rubber plantations over traditional swidden, or slash-and-burn, agriculture across Southeast Asia may carry significant environmental consequences, including loss of biodiversity, reduction of carbon stocks, pollution and degradation of local water supplies, report researchers writing in Science. —  Mongabay.com News
 

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  1. Dialectal alteration of obsolete swithen, from Old Norse svidhna, to be burned.
 

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