Swidden

Word SWIDDEN
Character 7
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Pronunciations /ˈswɪdən/

Definitions and meanings of "Swidden"

What do we mean by swidden?

An area cleared for temporary cultivation by cutting and burning the vegetation. noun

An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn noun

To clear an area of land by cutting and burning verb

An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.

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The word "swidden" in example sentences

Slash-and-burn, or "swidden," agriculture - clearing patches of woodland for crops and moving on after each harvest to allow the soil to replenish itself - is usually seen as a crude antecedent to the more intensive farming practiced in the lowlands and most of the developed world. ❋ Anon (2010)

Trees turned the color of bone by drought, skies black with the smoke and ash of swidden burning for cultivation, the forest heavy with the smell of death. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

Many maintain a traditional swidden agriculture, with hunter-gathering and trading in artefacts; some today also live on mining and tourism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Highland Peoples have a special relationship to their land, and their livelihood depends directly on swidden cultivation and the collection of non-timber forest products. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Secondary forest on areas of former swidden agriculture are found in the Mae Chan Valley and central uplands towards the east. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Use of forest areas for swidden agriculture and extraction of non-wood forest products (including fuel­wood, rattan and bamboo, wildlife, malva nuts, and medicine) as well as ecological and environmental functions such as water­shed, biodiversity, and carbon storage pro­vided a TEV ranging of $1,300 – 4,500 per hectare (environmental services accounted for $590 of that while NWFPs provided $700 – 3,900 per hectare). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mature forest cut for swidden agriculture generally is succeeded in this ecoregion by a grassy subclimax that supports far fewer species than the mature forest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Reconstruction of pristine forest structure and composition has been made very difficult by the high degree of landscape degradation that has taken place, much of it as the result of swidden agricultural practices. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hill slopes support more native forest than the lowland areas, and the hill forests of southern Thailand are relatively intact, although swidden (slash-and-burn) agriculture is still practiced in some hill areas in the northern part of the ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These households and communities surrounded the national park supplement their livelihood through the gathering of rattan and almaciga (resin) and practicing swidden agriculture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are at least seven different tribes in and around GLNP, with their own languages and cultures from the Aceh and Gayo muslim farmers in the north, Batak highland farmers and Pakpak hunters and swidden hill farmers to the Alas, Singhil and Melayu rice farmers and fishermen of the lowlands mixed with Javanese once imported by the Dutch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Austronesian swidden cultivators in the Philippines, Borneo, and Indonesia can reach population densities of more than 20 persons per square kilometer, and densities above 50 per kilometer have been observed among swidden agriculturists in New Guinea and parts of Polynesia. 47 Taiwan's low population density translated into a relatively high standard of living. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For example, areas covered by woody vegetation may represent an undisturbed natural shrubland, a forest preserve recovering from a fire (use = conservation), regrowth following tree harvest (forestry), a plantation of immature rubber trees (plantation agriculture), swidden agriculture plots that are in between periods of clearing for annual crop production, or an irrigated tea plantation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They ventured into the system to establish right over their agricultural crops not as stable land owners or of having possession right over specific swidden sites that they put into production. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Identify the different factors associated with patch cultivation/swidden farming in Barangay Magao-gao. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their parents bring them to the forest farm in performing the swidden farming. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However, after an intensive and persuasive interview among the respondents, other factors played a big role in the practice of swidden farming. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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