A farming practice involving the cutting and burning of vegetation to clear forest land, used traditionally in tropical regions for agriculture.
From Tagalog or Southeast Asian languages where this practice originated and was named; the word entered English through colonial and anthropological literature.
Caingin farming is thousands of years old in Southeast Asia, but Western ecologists only recently realized it wasn't destructive—when managed properly, it creates biodiversity hotspots instead of wastelands!
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