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Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets ... Also known as ‘swidden’ or ‘slash and burn’ this is when jungle areas are chopped down and burnt. The ash is good for the soil, so ...

Slash-and-burn agriculture was still a problem caused by the poor landless farmers. The worst areas were Prolean, Chi Phat and Chhay Areng. Wildlife Alliance worked closely with the governor and ...

Unlike the slash-and-burn agricultural techniques commonly associated with early Amazonian societies, the Casarabe people preserved surrounding forests, using them for firewood, medicinal plants ...

Settlements in the region rely heavily on slash-and-burn agriculture, clearing patches of forest to grow cassava, peanuts, bananas, and maize. Trees and shrubs are felled, and the remaining ...

The president’s slash-and-burn funding cuts are betraying California ... may yet hold promises for our future, in medicine, in agriculture, in our sharing of this Earth. Each living species ...

“Their plan to slash and burn Medicaid is a direct attack on cities ... conspiracy and money laundering charges. — Joe Anuta and Maya Kaufman AOC ENDORSES: … but not yet in the mayoral ...

— The Defense Department is bulldozing through its cyber workforce, and former Pentagon officials and experts warn it could cause irreparable damage to the nation’s cyber defenses. HAPPY ...

“This wasn’t an effort to just slash and burn,” said Sebastian Guth, chief operating officer at Bayer Pharmaceuticals at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit on Monday. “Eighteen months ...

Bayer Pharmaceuticals executive Sebastian Guth says the decision to cut middle managers was an "effort to accelerate momentum and growth across the organization ...