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shifting cultivation: a standalone construct

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shiftingcultivation1 CONSTRUCTShifting cultivationVAN VLIET · LAND USE SCIENCE

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Land use science

farming in which forest plots are cleared and burned, cropped for a few years and then left fallow to regrow.

In land use science, shifting cultivation refers to farming in which forest plots are cleared and burned, cropped for a few years and then left fallow to regrow. This meaning comes from van Vliet (2012) in Global Environmental Change.[1]

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  1. van Vliet, N., Mertz, O., Heinimann, A., Langanke, T., Pascual, U., Schmook, B., Adams, C., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Messerli, P., Leisz, S., Castella, J., Jørgensen, L., Birch-Thomsen, T., Hett, C., Bech-Bruun, T., Ickowitz, A., Vu, K. C., Yasuyuki, K., Fox, J., Padoch, C., Dressler, W., & Ziegler, A. D. (2012). Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment. Global Environmental Change, 22(2), 418-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.009

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