slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture was popular during the 1910-45 Japanese occupation.

Simple economics may offer a new approach for slash-and-burn agriculture, which if successful might also have relevance for similar environmental encroachments.

Astronauts and scientist manning the International Space Station (ISS) could even see the visible traces of the smoke and smog created by these slash-and-burn methods in space.

Perhaps he could instruct his priests and lay-workers throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia to teach people to swap slash-and-burn for environmentally friendly farming.

Smog from slash-and-burn agricultural fires in Indonesia has been blamed for killing an asthmatic woman in southern Malaysia, the first reported death attributed to the crisis, a media report said Wednesday.

The fact is the ruling class is inflicting a slash-and-burn agenda on ordinary working-class people.

Despite the brave faces of those with jobs in the coalition, sustaining a slash-and-burn Conservative regime is backfiring.

When farmers practice slash-and-burn farming in clearings, the half destroyed forests are proliferated by fires.

The slash-and-burn rice planting of the community's Da-an tribe and its belief in the spirit world are discussed.

The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility to finance projects to curb slash-and-burn farming and other forms of forest degradation will begin soon in Vietnam, Madagascar and 23 other countries formally selected at the facility's first meeting in the United States in late October, the sources said.

Each year, uncontrolled slash-and-burn practices by farmers, plantation owners and loggers on the Indonesian islands send a smoky haze to Singapore, Malaysia and southern Thailand.

An Allen victory means that the slash-and-burn style mastered by Atwater, dominated by Rove, and advanced by Wadhams is still an unstoppable force.

Documentarian Tony Palmer's slash-and-burn, tell-all style yields a Margot Fonteyn whose accomplishment as the world's most famous ballerina was bought at the price of considerable personal anguish.

Johannes Lehmann, assistant professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Cornell University, says the super-fertile soil was produced thousands of years ago by indigenous populations using slash-and-char methods instead of slash-and-burn. Slash-and-char uses low-intensity smoldering fires covered with dirt and straw, for example, which partially exclude oxygen.

If some of today's Amazonian farmers were to use smoldering fires to produce dark earth rather than clear fields with common slash-and-burn methods, they "would not only dramatically improve soil and increase crop production but also could provide a long-term sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide," says Lehmann.