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The effects of land clearing through burning on the fertility level . Agric . Ecosyst . Environ . 19 , 311-332 . 2. Bandy , D.E. , Garrity , D.P. and Sanchez , P.A. 1993. The worldwide problem of slash and burn agriculture . Agrofor .

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The worldwide problem of slash and burn agriculture . Agrofor . Today 5 , 2-9 . 3. Nair , P.K.R. 1990. The Prospects and Promise of Agroforestry in the Tropics , a Review of Technical and Socioeconomic Information with Special Emphasis ...

At this point , it does not matter whether deforestation is brought about by timber extractors , or by slash and burn agriculture , or by livestock producers . The issue is that , to produce cows on an extensive basis , the forest must ...

Alternatives to slash and burn : a pragmatic approach for mitigating tropical de- forestation . In : J. R. Anderson ( ed . ) Agricultural technology , policy issues for the international community . Wallingford , U. K. CABI .

Compared to other regions of the world, LAC still has great natural resource wealth. ... heavy use of agrochemicals, soil salinization, wind and water erosion, slash-and- burn agriculture—have exacted a heavy toll on the environment, ...

Bush Negroes and the indigenous Akawaio and Waiyana Indians are forest - dwellers who practice the slash - and - burn type of agriculture . Their uses and locations of villages and gardens often differ because of cultural heritage .

International Rice Research Institute , Los Baños , Philippines , 1972. pp . 637-644 . ... LAFONT , P. O. Slash and burn ( ray ) agriculture systems in mountain popula- tions of Central Vietnam . Proc . 9th Pacific Sci . Cong .

They have identified and corrected the basic soil fertility problems with modest fertilizer applications resulting in continuous farming for nine consecutive years , compared with 1-2 years under traditonal slash - and - burn methods .