SHIFTING CULTIVATION


A method o' cultivation in which several crop years are followed
by several Years of FALLOW with the land not under management
during the fallow. The shifting cultivation may involve shifts
around a permanent homestead or village site, or the entire living
area may -hr-ft location as the fields for cultivation are moved.



SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL

The greatest probability that a researcher is willing to accept
that he or she will reject a hypothesis when it should be
accepted. SiologicAl researchers, reflecting their cautionary
motives, frequently set the significance level at 5 percent, but
other values are also sometimes used.



SINGLE CROI SYSTEM, SINGLE CROPPING

A system in which only one crop is grown on the same PLOT of land
in one year.



SINGLE INTERVIEW SURVEY

A survey in which the sampled farmers are only interviewed once.
It may be a FURMAL or INFORMAL SURVEY.



SLASH AND BURN, SWIDDEN FARMING

A type of SHIFTING CULTIVATION in high rainfall areas where bush
or tree growth occurs during the FALLOW period. The fallow growth
is cleared by cutting and burning.



SMALL FARMER

A general t*rm used to refer to resource-poor farmers. Such
farmei-s are often subsistence producers and frequently have
difficulty obtaining sufficient inputs to allow them adequately to
use the technology that is available to medium- and large-scale
commercial Farmers. Small does not, necessarily, refer to the
area of land held.


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