(Agriculture) a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally
The biggest threat to forest-dwelling wildlife is the loss and damage to their habitat, mostly caused by humans clearing land for producing commodities, unsustainable logging, shifting agriculture and wildfires.
CM Balochistan directed energy department to collect details of functional and non-functional tube wells and ensure implementation of shifting agriculture tube wells on solar system.
Another innovation in the tropics, especially South-East Asia, led by farmers who used to practice shifting agriculture, is to plant a wide variety of commercially important tree species among food crops species on the valley slopes.
Indigenous communities, reliant on shifting agriculture and extensive foraging, are pushed aside to make way for millions of hectares of genetically engineered soy for animal feed in Argentina and Brazil.
Shifting agriculture, the cutting of trees, and the conversion of forests into large-scale monoculture plantations all contribute to the destruction of forests and the escalation of the human-monkey conflict.
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