Erigbaasta
- Created by: Polly
- Created on: 15-04-15 18:51
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- Erigbaasta
- Site
- Amazon rainforest
- On high ground
- Defence/ away from flood plains
- Situation
- Near river
- Water supply
- Surrounded by rainforest
- Supply of timber
- Near river
- Subsistence farming
- Shifting cultivation
- Small patch of rainforest selected and vegetation cleared
- Logs burnt and ash released into soil as nutrients with rain
- Variety of crops such as maize and rice grown
- Crops harvested after 5 months
- Decline in soil fertility after 2 years
- Clearing abandoned and another patch found
- Plants returned after 20 years
- Fewer species
- Plants returned after 20 years
- Clearing abandoned and another patch found
- Decline in soil fertility after 2 years
- Crops harvested after 5 months
- Variety of crops such as maize and rice grown
- Logs burnt and ash released into soil as nutrients with rain
- Small patch of rainforest selected and vegetation cleared
- Shifting cultivation
- Site
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