| Secondary succession is central to the agricultural system of shifting cultivation or slash and burn agriculture. |
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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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| Other threats includes road construction, selective logging, and slash and burn agriculture. |
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| They make a living by fishing, slash and burn agriculture, paddy cultivation of rice, basket weaving for market and occasional wage labor. |
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| Local subsistence strategies include slash and burn agriculture, fishing, hunting, and small-scale carbon production. |
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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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| Contributions to greenhouse gas emissions can come from burning fuelwood, slash and burn agriculture, and other land uses. |
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| Biomass burning associated with slash and burn agriculture is one of the major cause of Green House Gas emissions. |
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| He practiced the slash and burn agriculture, grew vegetables or went fishing in his spare time. |
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| Grantee: Africa Environmental News Service Steer communities in three counties of Liberia away from slash and burn agriculture and hunting of wild animals toward the economic alternative of raising livestock. |
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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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| 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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| Humans practiced the technique of itinerant slash and burn agriculture. |
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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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| It's mainly slash and burn agriculture in Madagascar... which means chopping down a bit of forest, burning the trees, planting rice on the fertile soil. |
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| About 30,000 persons live within 64 settlements in the preserve, and the main activities are commercial fishing, slash and burn agriculture, and extensive cattle ranching. |
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| Air quality is probably good in the wet season but may be influenced in the dry season by the practice of slash and burn agriculture by local residents and dust from logging trucks in the dry season. |
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| Community members helped set a range of health and environmental goals, such as reductions in infant mortality, improved nutrition, agricultural intensification, and alternatives to slash and burn agriculture. |
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| Research and Training to improve agroforestry systems focusing on alternatives to slash and burn agriculture in the humid tropics and overcoming land depletion in sub-humid and semiarid Africa. |
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| These areas have suffered the most from slash and burn agriculture. |
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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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