What is “shifting cultivation?”

a. changing from one crop to another mid-season
b. when men took over the cultivation of crops from women
c. the process of clearing wooded areas of trees to allow planting there
d. allowing naturally growing grasses to overtake a planted field to increase food diversity
e. a method of crop rotation, in which an area is planted until it becomes eroded, then the group moves on to another area


Ans: e

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