swidden

Examples

• All

• The majority of their subsistence (in terms of time spent) comes from swidden agriculture.

  Academic text (1995)

• And there wasn't enough unoccupied land for swidden farming.

  Academic text (2009)

• Obviously, swidden agriculture could not support such a large population.

  Academic text (1990)

• Most other plants were taken from her own swidden fields for safekeeping in her home garden.

  Academic text (2004)

• As with manioc, the most important source of planting material is the household's swidden fields.

  Academic text (2004)

• Similarly, she requested and received seeds from a mango in another neighbor's swidden field.

  Academic text (2004)

• Fire is a fundamental tool within a broad spectrum of vegetation management strategies, from swidden agriculture to plantation forestry.

  Academic text (1999)

• Because of the prevailing conditions of poor soils, they were shifting cultivators practicing swidden agriculture.

  Academic text (1990)

• Most dooryard gardens studied are those of settled people, although swidden agriculturists have gardens that they move when they relocate their settlement.

  Academic text (2004)

• Debates about soil fertility and the suitability of swidden cultivation in the Petén have simmered in development circles for several decades.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

C

clearing

vsswidden

56 2.8

An open area in a forest with few trees

is cleared specifically to grow crops rather than being general open land

Surface Forms

Etymology