Definition: Shifting cultivation

Category: FAO Agricultural censuses

Farming practice whereby a particular piece of land is cultivated for some years and then abandoned for a period sufficient to restore its fertility by natural vegetative growth before being re-cultivated. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/world_census_agri_2020_EN.pdf Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "A system of integrated agricultural censuses and surveys. Volume 1: World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010", Rome, 2005