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    Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden...
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  • "Slash 'n' Burn" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 16 March 1992 by record label Columbia as the fourth...
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    Erosion from deforestation is a direct and serious result of slash-and-burn agriculture. Moreover, slash-and-burn cultivation is less productive than wet-field...
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    the area. Metsähallitus has been practicing slash-and-burn agriculture at Telkkämäki since 1993. Turnip and rye are typical crops grown on a Telkkämäki...
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    Slash-and-char is an alternative to slash-and-burn that has a lesser effect on the environment. It is the practice of charring the biomass resulting from...
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    see Forestry (below) Historically and at present, the primary method for rendering arable land is the slash-and-burn method (also known as "shifting cultivation"...
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    management. A controlled burn may also refer to the intentional burning of slash and fuels through burn piles. Controlled burns may also be referred to...
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    Orang Asli (category Malay words and phrases)
    and tightly curly hair. Senoi (or Sakai), residing in the central region, were wavy-haired people taller than the Negrito, engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture...
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    Shifting cultivation (category Agriculture and the environment)
    slash-and-burn as one element of their farming cycle. Others employ land clearing without any burning, and some cultivators are purely migratory and do...
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    Mizoram (category States and union territories of India)
    position in the gerontocratic Mizo society. The various clans and subclans practised slash-and-burn, locally called jhum cultivation - a form of subsistence...
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    February 2020. "slash-and-burn agriculture | Definition & Impacts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 April 2020. "What is Slash and Burn Agriculture"...
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    late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into farmlands. By the...
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    home gardens, slash-and-burn, and plantain cultivation. Cabécar households maintain tropical home gardens with a variety of trees and plants for domestic...
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  • their first album Subhuman Minds in 1990. It was followed in 1993 by Slash and Burn. The second album took a musical turn from the industrial dance style...
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    timber species such as mahogany, ebony, and rosewood threatens native stands. The traditional slash-and-burn agriculture (tavy) together with population...
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    national and regional awards. Scarpati has produced two books based on his photography: Cramp, Slash, & Burn: When Punk and Glam Were Twins and Eyes Wide...
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    has been proposed as an alternative to the ecological destruction of slash-and-burn farming. When crops are carefully selected, other agronomic benefits...
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    land of trees and other vegetation, burning it, and then cultivating it for a set number of years. Shifting cultivation and slash and burn cultivation are...
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    whereas slash/burn soils quickly become depleted of nutrients, forcing farmers to abandon the fields, producing a continuous slash and burn cycle. Using...
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    utilized the slash-and-burn method for centuries, and the Spanish made few changes in techniques. In the 1980s, most farmers practiced a slash-and-burn type of...
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    acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. Slash-and-burn and other unsustainable methods of subsistence farming are practiced in...
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    around the dry season as slash-and-burn methods are used to clear the forest to make way for agriculture, livestock, logging, and mining, leading to deforestation...
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    coupled with unusually dry weather. Slash-and-burn land management was a common way to clear forest for farming and railroad construction. This allowed...
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    split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. The East Slavs practiced "slash-and-burn" agricultural methods which took advantage of...
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  • farmers who use slash-and-burn agricultural techniques to farm their heavily forested communities. Popular perceptions that slash and burn practices are...
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    maize cultivation and rain forests in the northeast exploited for tropical hardwoods. Primary causes of forest loss include slash-and-burn for agricultural...
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    India, ladang in Indonesia and jhumming in North East India. [citation needed]While shifting agriculture's slash-and-burn technique may describe the method...
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    logging slash. Logging slash can be chipped and used (for example) in the production of electricity or heat in cogeneration power-plants, or simply burned onsite...
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    examples include oil spills, water pollution, slash and burn deforestation, air pollution, ground fissures, and build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Physical...
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    mainly by slash-and-burn techniques adopted by farmers in Indonesia. Slash and burn has been extensively used for many years as the cheapest and easiest...
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