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Slash and burn practices in Finland in 1892... Slash and burn practices in Finland in 1892... the practice of slash and burn has been widely practiced throughout most of the world... Slash and burn techniques are used by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide... Slash and burn is a specific functional element of certain farming practices... slash and burn may have no cyclical aspects... some slash and burn activities can render soils incapable of further yields for generations... is to be subjected to another round of slash and burn in the future... Slash and burn requires a relatively low human population density or a continuing supply of new... sustainable forms of slash and burn have been practiced for millennia... have made traditional slash and burn practices less sustainable and more likely to result in catastrophic... slash and burn techniques have been widely used for converting forests into crop fields and pasture... Slash and burn has been replaced by other methods in most temperate zones... a rise in the use of slash and burn agriculture to plant...

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