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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Farms, Agricultural Production Systems
  2. farming systems
  3. shifting cultivation

Preferred term

shifting cultivation

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A farming system, common in the tropics, in which land is cleared, the debris burned, and crops grown for a relatively short period until yields decline. The land is then abandoned. The original land is cleared and cropped again after a uncontrolled fallow period of 3-20 years, usually when soil fertility has been naturally restored by woody vegetation.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • bush fallow systems
  • slash and burn agriculture
  • slash-and-burn agriculture
  • slash and burn farming
  • swidden agriculture

In other languages

  • cultivo migratorio

    Spanish

  • agricultura de corte y quema
  • agricultura de roce y quema
  • agricultura de tala y quema
  • agricultura migratoria
  • agricultura nómada
  • cultivo de roza
  • cultivo nómada
  • proceso de corte y quema
  • sistema de barbecho arbolado
  • sistema de barbecho forestal
  • sistema de corte y quema
  • sistema de tumba y quema
  • sistemas agrícolas de corte y quema

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/20559

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