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Method of agriculture
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation
Shifting_cultivation
Agricultural practice
Slash-and-burn agriculture is a form of shifting cultivation in agriculture that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to
Slash-and-burn_agriculture
Cultivation of plants and animals to produce foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials
the farmer. Shifting cultivation (or slash and burn) is a system in which forests are burnt, releasing nutrients to support cultivation of annual and
Agriculture
crops can be produced such as rice, sugarcane, wheat and tobacco. Shifting cultivation is a type of subsistence farming where a plot of land is cultivated
Farming_systems_in_India
Region in southeastern Bangladesh
cultivation in sloping land, shifting cultivation and logging. Shifting cultivation, also known as slash-and-burn agriculture or swidden cultivation,
Chittagong_Hill_Tracts
Last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods
classical writers have descriptions of shifting cultivation people. Many peoples' various shifting cultivations characterized the migration Period in Europe
Iron_Age_Europe
Indigenous people of Colombia
hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. They were classified as an "uncontacted people" until 1981
Nukak
State in northeastern India
months of the year, each of which is a stage of shifting cultivation. In modern times, shift cultivation is a significant threat to the biodiversity of
Meghalaya
gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. Data are for the year 2021, and are from the UN FAO
List of countries by arable land density
List_of_countries_by_arable_land_density
Primitive agriculture without use of the plow
Americas. Hoe-farming often coincides with long fallow systems and shifting cultivation. Split hoes (also known as prong hoes, tined hoes or bent forks)
Hoe-farming
State in Northeast India, India
Historically, Mizoram participated in jhum cultivation (shifting cultivation). During the 1970s and 80s, jhum cultivation decreased from 58,000 hectares (140
Mizoram
Land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops
fallow (less than five years). The abandoned land resulting from shifting cultivation is not included in this category. Data for 'Arable land' are not
Arable_land
Ethnic group of India
Rajwars (also spelt as Rajuala, Rajuad) is a shifting cultivation community. The people of this community mainly live in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh
Rajuar
Ethnic group from Borneo
families. In terms of agriculture, the Iban have long practiced shifting cultivation, particularly of rice, as well as hunting and gathering. The Iban
Iban_people
Indian ethnic group
integrated into the nation-states. The hill people often practice shifting cultivation. Scott states that this is to evade taxation, but a simpler explanation
Hill tribes of Northeast India
Hill_tribes_of_Northeast_India
extreme are the extensive slash-and-burn methods of brush clearing and shifting cultivation in the south and the east. In the forested areas of the eastern coast
Agriculture_in_Madagascar
Small-scale cultivation of plants
non-industrial cultivation of plants; horticulture is distinct from gardening by its emphasis on scientific methods, plant breeding, and technical cultivation practices
Horticulture
French anthropologist (born 1934)
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Maurice_Godelier
Agricultural practice
Dryland farming Crop rotation Three-field system No-till farming Shifting cultivation Shmita "What Is Fallow Ground: Are There Any Benefits Of Fallowing
Fallow
Farming to meet basic needs
Shifting cultivation is called bewar, podu or dahya in India, ladang in Indonesia and jhumming in North East India.[citation needed] While shifting agriculture's
Subsistence_agriculture
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Valuable natural resource
conveniently dovetailed with a particular method of teak cultivation. This method was shifting cultivation or taungya. Taungya is the practice of removing the
Teak_in_Myanmar
Process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree
Chomitz, Kenneth M.; Griffiths, Charles (May 1996). "Deforestation, shifting cultivation, and tree crops in Indonesia: nationwide patterns of smallholder
Rubber_tapping
Mating system in which the male partner may have multiple partners
and the large economic contribution of women. In some regions of shifting cultivation where polygyny is most frequently recorded, labor is often starkly
Polygyny
Tribal community in India
forage or hunt in the forests. They also practice the podu system of shifting cultivation on the hill slopes where they grow different varieties of rice, lentils
Khond_people
results in a displacement for poor ethnic minorities who rely on shifting cultivation near the forest margins. It would thus be more accurate to situate
Coffee_production_in_Vietnam
National park in Sri Lanka
Before the designation of the national park, the area was used for shifting cultivation (chena farming). The farmers were gradually removed once the national
Udawalawe_National_Park
states. From ancient times, the locals have practiced slash-and-burn shifting cultivation to grow food. Locally called Jhum, it supports about 450,000 families
Forestry_in_India
extend permanent cultivation into areas dominated by large-scale fallowing and shifting cultivation and to incorporate stateless shifting cultivators into
People_of_Assam
Remains of a tree trunk
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Tree_stump
Term used to refer the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
vernacular term jum or jhum (traditional farming method) for swidden or shifting cultivation, a predominant agricultural practice across many hill groups and
Jumma_(people)
Kantu, Dakkang, Triw, Chatong and Ngeq. They subsist mainly on shifting cultivation, hunting and fishing. They traditionally lived in small villages
Katuic_peoples
Cultivation and raw material industry
Bamboo forestry (also known as bamboo farming, cultivation, agriculture or agroforestry) is a cultivation and raw material industry that provides the raw
Bamboo_cultivation
Method of woodland management
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Coppicing
Tribal community in Odisha, India
resources of the Niyamgiri forests, practising horticulture and shifting cultivation. They have been at the centre of a dispute over mining rights in
Dangaria_Kandha
especially cultivation of rice, maize, and millet reached Bhutan through southern China and Northeast India. Traditionally, shifting cultivation was an important
Agriculture_in_Bhutan
Process of cutting down trees
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Felling
Ethnolinguistic group in northeast India
lower Himalayan foothills. In this habitat, the Boros practised shifting cultivation for self-sustenance and controlled forest products. To cultivate
Boro_people
Tibeto-Burman ethnic group from India
List of people of Tani descent Lego clan Riba, Tomo (5 March 2013). Shifting Cultivation and Tribal Culture of Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Rubi Enterprise
Tani_peoples
Indian constitutional body
Measures to be taken to reduce and ultimately eliminate the practice of shifting cultivation by Tribals that lead to their continuous disempowerment and degradation
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National_Commission_for_Scheduled_Tribes
Mesoamerican crop growing system
and Guatemala Agroecology Controlled burn Crop rotation Chitemene Shifting cultivation Real Academia de la Lengua Española. "Diccionario de la Real Academia
Milpa
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List of countries by forest area
List_of_countries_by_forest_area
Person without fixed habitat
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Nomad
Kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam, India (1228–1826)
shifting cultivation. They brought traditions of wet-rice cultivation to the shifting-cultivation regions and incorporated these stateless shifting cultivators
Ahom_kingdom
Sap from birch trees
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Birch_sap
Logger who attaches cables to logs for retrieval by skidders or skylines
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Choker_setter
Science and study of woody plants
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Dendrology
Species of flowering plant
loss from mining, logging, and forest clearing for agriculture and shifting cultivation. Its conservation status is assessed as Least Concern. Razafiniary
Brochoneura_acuminata
Ethno-linguistic groups of people found in South Asia
the Chota Nagpur plateau and Rajmahal hills and practiced a mix of shifting cultivation and rice farming. It appears that there were two Munda tribes, the
Munda_peoples
Indigenous Timbira Gê people of Brazil
historically been seminomadic, practicing hunting and gathering and shifting cultivation. Modern Krahô live on the Terra Indígena Kraolândia, an Indigenous
Krahô
Tiger reserve in Mizoram, India
27 km2 (36.78 sq mi) in 2005. This could be due to the practice of shifting cultivation by villagers at the border of the reserve. A 62-km fence and patrol
Dampa_Tiger_Reserve
Ethnic descriptor
localized back and forth seasonal migratory culture(s) based on shifting cultivation. They are referred to in various census as African, Black, or Native
Bantu_peoples_of_South_Africa
Species of plant
which is around 200km north of Darzo. Habitat loss, deforestation, shifting cultivation, and new plantations could threaten the survival of the species.
Strobilanthes_parryorum
Type of forest with high rainfall
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Rainforest
Ethnic group found in the northeastern Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
economy was based substantially on ahu rice and shifting cultivation. This mobile pattern of cultivation persisted well into the British period. A. J. Moffatt
Moran_people
Technique of severe pruning of trees
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Pollarding
Ethnic group
practised shifting cultivation. Many of their traditional values, songs, dance and hunting activities revolved around the cycles of shifting cultivation (jhum)
Darlong_people
Geographical classification in Tamil literature
and idaiyar, whose occupation included Ruling land's, livestock, shifting cultivation, husbandry and dairy farming. The kovalars were cowherder and the
Sangam_landscape
Culinary traditions of Tripuri people
lifestyle and evolving cultural trend with times from its natural Huk (shifting cultivation) to now settled farming. A dish made with rice and beef. A meat based
Tripuri_cuisine
rendering arable land is the slash-and-burn method (also known as "shifting cultivation" or "swiddening"). This involves setting fire to areas of primary
Agriculture_in_Myanmar
Wood from trees preserved in peat bogs
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Bog-wood
Dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area
species, and the slash and burn practices of swidden agriculture or shifting cultivation. The loss and re-growth of forests lead to a distinction between
Forest
Research institute in Jorhat, Assam, India
N‐Heterocycles The comparative soil fertility in traditional and alder-based shifting cultivation of varied fallow lengths in Eastern Indian Himalayas Satellite-based
Rain Forest Research Institute
Rain_Forest_Research_Institute
Floating wood logs downriver to a sawmill
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Log_driving
Eastern half of the Himalayas mountain range
allowing spring crops to thrive. The region's economy relied mostly on shifting cultivation agriculture, supplemented by hunting, fishing and barter trade. Agricultural
Eastern_Himalayas
1st Chief Minister of Sarawak (1963–1966)
Meanwhile, one-sixth of the total land area in Sarawak was under shifting cultivation. Thus, the zoning system prevents the land from being used effectively
Stephen_Kalong_Ningkan
Intergovernmental policy forum
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United_Nations_Forum_on_Forests
Elite force of wildland firefighters
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Hotshot_crew
Second-largest species of elephant
Destruction of forests through logging, encroachment, slash-and-burn, shifting cultivation, and monoculture tree plantations are major threats to the survival
Asian_elephant
Forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a timber harvest
have been lost by the slash-and-burn method, a component of some shifting cultivation systems of agriculture. While many definitions of secondary forests
Secondary_forest
Process where unique economic goods become interchangeable in the eyes of consumers
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Commoditization
Ethnic group in Myanmar
Judson began his mission in Rangoon (now Yangon). The Daai practice shifting cultivation, known as taungya in Burmese and lou or lo in the Daai language.
Daai_Chin
Ethnic group of the Highland Papua, Indonesia
sweet potatoes and taro as their staple foods, which are grown using shifting cultivation. Other food sources are hunting and gathering. For festivities such
Yali_people
Type of wildfire, peat fire that burns from year to year
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Holdover_fire
Peninsula in Indonesia
concentrations inland. Villagers practise subsistence farming by shifting cultivation of copra, rice, maize and peanuts, as well as hunting. There are
Bird's_Head_Peninsula
People of Philippine province
world", are found in central and northern Palawan. They practice shifting cultivation of upland rice, which is considered a divine gift, and are known
Peoples_of_Palawan
Major river in Southeast Asia
upland shifting cultivation. With upland shifting agriculture (slash and burn), soils recover within 10 to 20 years but the vegetation does not. Shifting cultivation
Mekong
Major Naga ethnic group
many other ethnic groups in Northeast India, they practice jhum, or shifting cultivation. Naga peoples in Nagaland practiced animistic religions until their
Sangtam_Naga
Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
relatively much water was available. The Caquetío people probably used a shifting cultivation farming method, also known as slash-and-burn. The yields from agriculture
Aruba
Ethnic group in Southeast Asia
Cambodia primarily practice irrigated rice cultivation, although some groups maintain a practice of shifting cultivation. Some Kuy also raise silk worms and
Kuy_people
Tree species native to South and Southeast Asia
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Teak
Nilotic ethnic group in Ethiopia and Sudan
population was around 250,000 people in 2025. The Gumuz practice shifting cultivation and their staple food is sorghum (Wallmark 1981). Cereal crops are
Gumuz_people
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Bamboo_forest
Person who practices forest management
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Forester
Food starch
soils and a hot, humid climate. Some farmers produce the crop by shifting cultivation on the cleared forested slopes. The harvesting season extends from
Arrowroot
Region of Earth surrounding the Equator
slash-and-burn deforestation techniques, which are sometimes an element of shifting cultivation agricultural systems. In biogeography, the tropics are divided into
Tropics
LGA and town in Imo State, Nigeria
Land, farming was the main occupation of the people and was done by shifting cultivation, whereby the people will farm in one area in one year and move to
Aboh_Mbaise
Form of pastoralism
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Nomadic_pastoralism
2012 report by IUCN SSC
Papua Province, Indonesia Unknown habitat modification and degradation logging agricultural encroachment shifting cultivation and hunting by local people
The world's 100 most threatened species
The_world's_100_most_threatened_species
1963 book by Clifford Geertz
in the sedentary wet rice agriculture as opposed to the dry rice shifting cultivation regimes in the rest of Indonesia. The book has three sections: I
Agricultural_Involution
1944 book by Karl Polanyi
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The Great Transformation (book)
The_Great_Transformation_(book)
Economic concept
networks of strong personal relations. In processes of clientelization the cultivation of personal relationships between traders and customers assumes an equal
Embeddedness
Theory in anthropology
since 1966 and that ideas on the category of hunter-gatherer are always shifting, with new paradigms continuously emerging. One must also acknowledge that
Original_affluent_society
Department in Southwest Region, Cameroon
Bima and Batanga people inhabit the mountainous forest areas where shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are
Ndian
Exchange of goods or labour
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Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)
Reciprocity_(cultural_anthropology)
Ceremonial exchange system in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea
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Kula_ring
Town in Arunachal Pradesh, India
paddy cultivation whereas other tribes practice shifting cultivation called Jhom cultivation. (B) Apatanis cultivate permanent wet land cultivations whereas
Ziro
Mountain in Cameroun
forest-covered apart from a few small grassy areas near the summit. Shifting cultivation, logging for timber, felling for fuelwood, growth and expansion of
Mount_Kupe
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Index_of_agriculture_articles
Colombian anthropologist
for how people in poor countries could live". Citing Foucault marked a shift in the study of development from realism to interpretivist or post-structuralist
Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)
Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)
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