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shifting cultivation [1 record]

Record 1 2004-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cropping Systems
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Anthropology
DEF

A method of cultivation in which several crop years are followed by several fallow years with the land not under management during the fallow.

CONT

The shifting cultivation may involve shifts around a permanent homestead or village site, or the entire living area may shift location as the fields for cultivation are moved.

OBS

[Slash-and-burn is a] type of shifting cultivation in high rainfall areas where bush or tree growth occurs during the fallow period. The fallow growth is cleared by cutting and burning.

OBS

Swidden cultivation is a term popular with anthropologists, "swidden" referring to the clearings made by shifting cultivators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de culture
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Anthropologie
CONT

Culture itinérante (ou nomadisme cultural). Elle est caractérisée par la succession, sur un même terrain, d'une phase culturale comportant pendant quelques années une rotation de plusieurs cultures, et d'une phase de jachère plus ou moins longue, permettant la reconstitution de la fertilité du sol. [Ce] système [est] encore pratiqué très largement en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas de cultivo
  • Producción vegetal
  • Antropología
DEF

Actividad agrícola que se realiza en zonas tropicales y que consiste en una roturación a corto plazo y posterior abandono para proceder a la roturación de otro terreno. Obliga a ello la fragilidad de los suelos tropicales, que se agotan en poco tiempo.

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