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The 18 pages that link to Slash-and-burn agriculture, each with the reason it gives.

• DeforestationRelated: Burning can rapidly convert forest to farmland, especially where cultivation shifts to new plots.

• Neolithic RevolutionRelated: Shifting cultivation shows that farming need not entail permanent fields or dense settlements.

• Bantu expansionRelated: Mobile cultivation could support settlement in newly cleared forest environments.

• Shifting cultivationRelated: Burning is a common way to clear plots and release nutrients in shifting cultivation.

• Tropical deforestationRelated: Smallholder clearing can create expanding patches of forest loss, especially where fallow periods shorten.

• MilpaRelated: This clearing technique has been used in some milpa cycles, but does not define every milpa.

• Deforestation in MadagascarRelated: Known locally as tavy, it converts forest into fields, especially for rice cultivation.

• Biomass burningRelated: It is a direct agricultural use of biomass burning to open fields and add ash.

• Deforestation in BrazilRelated: Burning is used to clear land and can escape into surrounding forest during dry periods.

• OlmecsRelated: Shifting cultivation helped support communities in the humid Gulf lowlands.

• Ring-tailed lemurRelated: Forest clearance for agriculture destroys and degrades habitats used by ring-tailed lemurs.

• Deforestation of the Amazon rainforestRelated: Fire often follows forest clearing to create pasture and cropland in the Amazon.

• Agriculture in MesoamericaRelated: Rotating clearings helped farmers cultivate forested environments with limited tools.

• History of agricultureRelated: It illustrates how farmers adapted cultivation to soils that lose fertility over time.

• Jeulmun pottery periodRelated: Shifting cultivation offers one way to understand early farming alongside foraging.

• SifakaRelated: This practice converts sifaka habitat into fields and fallow land.