often attributive
: a temporary agricultural plot formed by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover
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Other examples of fire used as a form land management include Indigenous Australians' work regenerating grasslands, efforts to create fertile soil in the Amazon and swidden agriculture in Thailand.
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Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
Consequently, carbon storage under swidden-fallow systems is greater both above and below the ground.
—National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2016
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Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
Consequently, carbon storage under swidden-fallow systems is greater both above and below the ground.
—National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2016
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“Swidden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swidden. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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