- 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...
- (Darby 1956, 200).
Swidden farming was
practised in
Siberia at
least until the 1930s,
using specially selected varieties of "
swidden-rye" (Steensberg 1993...
- others. The
swiddens which can be
placed in
either savannas or
forests are
created by
cutting down all the
vegetation in the area that the
swidden will be...
-
gardens for taro, arrowroot, cabbage, and so on may be
found adjacent to the
swiddens or in the village. In long-
established villages,
fruit trees such as pears...
-
methods of food production. It was
believed that
shifting cultivation (
swidden)
agriculture provided most of
their food, but it is now
thought that permanent...
-
agricultural practices involved the
cultivation wet rice (papayaw) as well as
swidden (uwa) farming. Due to the
availability of water, two
planting seasons are...
- Maleu-Kilenge, is an
Austronesian language spoken by
several thousand swidden farmers in the
Talasea District of West New
Britain Province,
Papua New...
- the Bai Yue, who
preferred to
maintain small settlements subsisting on
swidden agriculture and rice farming.
Later on, Guangdong,
Northern Vietnam, and...
- rice is the main crop. Rice
cultivation occurs in
swiddens (cleared
portions of the forest).
Swiddens are
usually cultivated for a few years, then the...
- Arawate, Araueté or Bïde) are an
indigenous people of Brazil. They are
swidden horticulturalists native to the
state of Pará. The Araweté live on the...
