slash-and-burn in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Most of the people live by slash-and-burn agriculture, and rely on bushmeat such as porcupine, sitatunga, and forest hog for protein.
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Government efforts to preserve valuable hardwoods for commercial extraction have led to measures to prohibit slash-and-burn agriculture throughout the country.
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Traditionally, both groups relied on migration to resolve intracommunity conflict and to limit the ecological damage to the tropical forest caused by slash-and-burn agriculture.
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An example is the process where children learn slash-and-burn agriculture by being present in the situation and contributing when possible.
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For instance, habitat destruction resembling slash-and-burn agriculture is thought to affect rare species rather than poor colonizers.
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