- and
burning of
plants in a
forest or
woodland to
create a
field called a
swidden. The
method begins by
cutting down the
trees and
woody plants in an area...
-
methods of food production. It was
believed that
shifting cultivation (
swidden)
agriculture provided most of
their food, but it is now
thought that permanent...
- (Darby 1956, 200).
Swidden farming was
practised in
Siberia at
least until the 1930s,
using specially selected varieties of "
swidden-rye" (Steensberg 1993...
- fires, acid rain,
invasive species, and the
slash and burn
practices of
swidden agriculture or
shifting cultivation. The loss and re-growth of forests...
- and
traders who have
become emergent swidden sedentists Arao, Maleng, Malang, Makang, Tơe, Ahoe, Phóng
Swidden cultivators who move
every 2–3
years among...
- society. Huni Kuin also fish,
gather plant foods, and grow
crops through swidden, or slash-and-burn horticulture. Rice has
become an
export crop. Women...
- the Bai Yue, who
preferred to
maintain small settlements subsisting on
swidden agriculture and rice farming.
Later on, Guangdong,
Northern Vietnam, and...
-
allows speculative planting of wet rice,
while the
hills can be
farmed by
swidden or
shifting cultivation, wet rice,
hunting and gathering.
Around A.D. 1200...
-
intensive agriculture have
proved destructive to the
forests that had
endured swidden agriculture for many centuries.
Adivasis in
central part of
India have...
-
political economy would have been a
mixture of
hunting and
gathering and
swidden or
shifting agriculture.
Speculative planting of wet rice may have taken...
