- 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...
- and
traders who have
become emergent swidden sedentists Arao, Maleng, Malang, Makang, Tơe, Ahoe, Phóng
Swidden cultivators who move
every 2–3
years among...
- fires, acid rain,
invasive species, and the
slash and burn
practices of
swidden agriculture or
shifting cultivation. The loss and re-growth of forests...
- Asia. They
generally inhabited mountainous or
marginal lands and took up
swidden or slash-and-burn
cultivation techniques to farm
these lands.
During the...
- the Bai Yue, who
preferred to
maintain small settlements subsisting on
swidden agriculture and rice farming.
Later on, Guangdong,
Northern Vietnam, and...
- 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...
- fishermen,
farmers and hunter/gatherers, with some
living in
mountainside swiddens, some on
houseboats and some in
commercially developed coastal ports. Some...
- A
ritual of the
Iraya Mangyan to
prepare land for
kaingin (
swidden farming)...
