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slash-and-burn agriculture  

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  • Slash-and-burn agriculture, sometimes known as swiddening or shifting cultivation,involves felling trees and vegetation on a plot of land, leaving them to dry, and then setting fire to them. Crops planted on the plot benefit from the nutrients provided by the ash. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Agriculture, Slash-and-Burn]

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