| When landslides destroy cropland, farmers slash and burn adjacent forests in order to feed their families. |
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| Secondary succession is central to the agricultural system of shifting cultivation or slash and burn agriculture. |
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| He is being portrayed in the press as a kind of Thatcherite figure who plans to slash and burn his way across society. |
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| For example, instead of manuring lands, the Indians would periodically slash and burn areas they wished to cultivate. |
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| They often blame poor rural producers for what are perceived to be unsound practices including slash and burn cultivation, overgrazing, and deforestation for fuel wood. |
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| We pay down the debt, but we do not slash and burn in the short term simply for ideological reasons. |
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| Most of the rest has been destroyed by slash and burn agriculture, the creation of pastureland, and by collecting fuel wood. |
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| The primary cause of deforestation differs by country and even regions within countries but is usually associated with some form of slash and burn agriculture. |
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| The most traditional and widely used farming systems in the humid upland tropics are based on fallowing and various forms of slash and burn agriculture. |
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| They cultivate the land using slash and burn practices, which are only viable in the short term as the land is quickly exhausted. |
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| He had to slash and burn the tropical rainforest in order to clear the land he needed for the crops to feed his family. |
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| Humans practiced the technique of itinerant slash and burn agriculture. |
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| That was still the time of slash and burn farming. |
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| Wildfires are most often ignited through natural means, although human activity, such as slash and burn agriculture and even arson, is also a cause of wildfires. |
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| Because of this, the ancient farmers who practiced slash and burn had to leave the land for five to 25, even up to 40 years before they could farm the land again. |
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| The clearing of small plots of land for slash and burn agriculture and charcoal-making are the main causes of the destruction and degradation of Madagascar's forests. |
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| His energy is more roly-poly than slash and burn. |
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| This reduction was allotted to the double effect of the slash and burn agriculture and of abusive logging which clears, burns and overruns areas of land. |
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| One cause of high sediment loads from slash and burn and shifting cultivation of tropical forests. |
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| Shifting cultivation is a farming system which sometimes incorporates the slash and burn method in some regions of the world. |
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| Globally one of the largest contributors to erosive soil loss in the year 2006 is the slash and burn treatment of tropical forests. |
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| His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies. |
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| Last time we suffered slash and burn economics we had riots in the streets here in Liverpool. |
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| These areas have suffered the most from slash and burn agriculture. |
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| Peter Dutton has belled the cat on how he and Tony Abbott would slash and burn front line health jobs if they ever got into power, said Ms Plibersek. |
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| Secondly, emigration from rural areas reduces destructive subsistence farming techniques, such as improperly implemented slash and burn agriculture. |
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