Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

• 1975 ----- color ----- 17 min ----- 16mm/vhs
• Shows the functioning of an agricultural system in the rural tropics which involves no fertilizers and no straight rows of crops. Scenes taken in eastern Nicaragua show steps involved in the entire life cycle of slash-and-burn agriculture from site selection to harvest, and also nutrient cycling and the structural similarity between cultivate plot and the tropical forest it replaces.
• Topics: (Agriculture, Anthropology: Cultural, Geography)