tavy

More than a century ago the island's rulers realized that the traditional practice of slash-and-burn rice cultivation, known as tavy, was steadily diminishing the forests that act as nature's sponge, regulating the flow of rivers and streams.

The Rape Of Paradise 2007

The major threat to the Madagascar lowland forests is still, as it has been historically, the shifting cultivation practice of "tavy," or slash and burn agriculture.

Madagascar lowland forests 2007

Severe deforestation for slash-and-burn cultivation ( "tavy") has left their surroundings nearly completely devoid of trees.

Mongabay.com News 2009

Severe deforestation for slash-and-burn cultivation ( "tavy") has left their surroundings nearly completely devoid of trees.

Mongabay.com News 2009

Severe deforestation for slash-and-burn cultivation ( "tavy") has left their surroundings nearly completely devoid of trees.

Mongabay.com News 2009

Severe deforestation for slash-and-burn cultivation ( "tavy") has left their surroundings nearly completely devoid of trees.

Mongabay.com News 2009

Public officials, having repeatedly warned the villagers not to practice tavy in the park, thought they had an airtight case.

The Rape Of Paradise 2007

A demonstration farm east of the capital, one of several in the country, teaches intensive-agriculture techniques that should allow people to live on small plots of land without resorting to tavy.

The Rape Of Paradise 2007

OCTAVIUS. [earnestly] Oh please call me Ricky-ticky -- tavy, "Mr Robinson" would hurt me cruelly.

Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903

Because of tavy, a traditional but illegal slash-and-burn technique, much of Madagascar's forest is set alight annually for planting rice.

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