Shifting cultivation is characterized by:

A) an agroforestry system emphasizing intermixing of food crops and woody species.
B) shifting from one food crop to another in alternate years.
C) the shifting of land management of a given area from one farmer to another.
D) alternating 2-3 years' food crop production with a much longer period of fallow.
E) cutting and burning of woody species to reduce the C/N ratio of the crop residues.


D

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