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slash and burn
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slash and burn

Simple agricultural method whereby natural vegetation is cut and burned, and the clearing then farmed for a few years until the soil loses its fertility, whereupon farmers move on and leave the area to regrow. Although this is possible with a small, widely dispersed population, as in the Amazon rainforest for example, it becomes unsustainable with more people and is now a cause of deforestation.



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Third, national policies in all countries of Southeast Asia have tried to outlaw swidden farming and to encourage swiddeners to adopt permanent agriculture land use practices.
The official government policy towards the highlanders was to force them to stop their rotational swidden farming and reduce them to one small plot of land.
A watershed plan proposes only two methods to control sedimentation caused by erosion: reforestation and regulation of livelihood activities deemed destructive to the environment, such as swidden farming and timber harvesting.
 
 
 
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