Shifting cultivation (slash-and-burn): A subsistence farming method in which fields are cleared by cutting and burning vegetation, farmed for a few years, then abandoned to regenerate.
How to apply it: Use shifting cultivation to explain land-use patterns in tropical regions of the Amazon Basin and Central Africa.
Course: AP Human Geography · Unit: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
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