英:['swɪdən]
美:['swɪdn]
英:['swɪdən]
美:['swɪdn]
noun
a temporary agricultural plot formed by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover
English dialect, burned clearing, probably from Old Norse svithinn, past participle of svitha to burn, singe
The first known use of swidden was circa 1868
1 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.
2 Consequently, carbon storage under swidden-fallow systems is greater both above and below the ground.