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agricultura de pousio

English translation: shifting cultivation

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Portuguese term or phrase:agricultura de pousio
English translation:shifting cultivation
Entered by: Naomi Fillmore

18:54 Aug 31, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Agriculture
Portuguese term or phrase: agricultura de pousio
Faz-se parte dum relatorio sobre comunidade riberenhas o estado Amazonas, Brasil a seção apresenta informações sobre a agricultura delas.


"As alagações na várzea contribuem para a fertilização dos solos, enquanto nas áreas de terra firme a agricultura depende quase que inteiramente da agricultura de pousio."


Eu acho que "agricultura de pousio" quer dizer "set-aside farming" mas não encontro nada para confirmar.
Naomi Fillmore
Australia
Local time: 17:01
shifting cultivation
Explanation:
I think that "shifting cultivation" is the practice of the river-side communities in the Amazon.
"Slash and burn is typically a part of shifting cultivation agriculture."

And at this link:
http://www.sbpcnet.org.br/livro/58ra/atividades/TEXTOS/texto...
"A floresta, nas pequenas propriedades agrícolas do litoral de Santa Catarina, fazia parte de um ciclo de cultivo de espécies anuais, através da agricultura de pousio (agricultura itinerante, roça-de-toco, agricultura de coivara). Essa forma de cultivo constitui uma tradição milenar da maioria das populações indígenas, sendo assimilada pelas populações remanescentes dos processos de colonização. Nesse sistema, a floresta é suprimida e o solo é ocupado com culturas anuais por alguns anos até o declínio da sua fertilidade natural, sendo deixado em pousio até que tenha novamente condições favoráveis para de suportar um novo ciclo de cultivo."

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Here is another page about the same practice, here called "coivara":

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coivara
Selected response from:

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 04:01
Grading comment
Thanks! After doing some more research myself 'shifting cultivation' is seems to be the right word for the Amazon context
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3crop rotation with occasional fallow periods
TechLawDC
4 +2shifting cultivation
Martin Riordan
3 +2fallow farming/fallow agriculture
liz askew
4land "in repose" agriculture
Marlene Curtis
4Fallow System Farming
John Copestake (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira

Discussion entries: 2





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
crop rotation with occasional fallow periods


Explanation:
(Describes the cited reference.)

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Appropriation and local usages - FAO
www.fao.org/docrep/005/y2328e/y2328e07.htm
Populations who alternate shifting cultivation or crop rotation with fallow periods view treed land and farmland as two sides of the same coin, to be exploited in ..

TechLawDC
United States
Local time: 03:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Georgia Morg (X)
9 mins
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
1 hr
agree  cynthia07: certainly the best option
1 hr
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
land "in repose" agriculture


Explanation:
Pousio (ou poisio), em agricultura, é nome que se dá ao descanso ou repouso proporcionado às terras cultiváveis, interrompendo-se as culturas para tornar o solo mais fértil.[1

Banffshire
www.electricscotland.com/history/moray/chapter11.htmThe arable lands were divided into outfield and infield. ... with weeds and thistles, and after four or five years of repose was twice ploughed and sown with corn.

http://books.google.com/books?id=8jMB4tqNejQC&pg=PA373&lpg=P...

Search Results
History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape - Page 373 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0691012156
Emilio Sereni - 1997 - History - 389 pages
When one remembers that, in 1929, the agricultural cadastre surveyed, for all of
Italy, ... pastures of the Mediterranean type to that of sowed land "in repose


Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 03:01
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 158
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fallow farming/fallow agriculture


Explanation:
effects of fallow agriculture.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18441781
by A Cabaneiro - 2008 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
1 Mar 2008 – The effects of fallow agriculture on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics and CO2 emissions were assessed in the tropical Andean páramo ...
Fallow and fertile - The Ecologist
www.theecologist.org/blogs_and.../other.../fallow_and_ferti...
20 Jun 2008 – Inevitably, however, fallow farming has been deemed 'uneconomic' by the same logic that has seen agricultural imports and exports increase ...

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OR

fallow system of farming/agriculture

agricultural technology : Fallow system and tillage techniques ...
www.britannica.com/.../agricultural.../Fallow-system-and-ti...
Dryland farming is made possible mainly by the fallow system of farming, a practice dating from ancient times. Basically, the term fallow refers to land that is ...


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[PDF]
The Environmental Benefits of Set-Aside in the EU
www.defra.gov.uk/.../defra-stats-foodfarm-environ-obs-resea... Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
24% had been set-aside or fallow for ten or more years. In response to market shortages last year, the Agriculture Council agreed a derogation that allowed ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:01
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell
23 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Sheryle Oliver
8 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
shifting cultivation


Explanation:
I think that "shifting cultivation" is the practice of the river-side communities in the Amazon.
"Slash and burn is typically a part of shifting cultivation agriculture."

And at this link:
http://www.sbpcnet.org.br/livro/58ra/atividades/TEXTOS/texto...
"A floresta, nas pequenas propriedades agrícolas do litoral de Santa Catarina, fazia parte de um ciclo de cultivo de espécies anuais, através da agricultura de pousio (agricultura itinerante, roça-de-toco, agricultura de coivara). Essa forma de cultivo constitui uma tradição milenar da maioria das populações indígenas, sendo assimilada pelas populações remanescentes dos processos de colonização. Nesse sistema, a floresta é suprimida e o solo é ocupado com culturas anuais por alguns anos até o declínio da sua fertilidade natural, sendo deixado em pousio até que tenha novamente condições favoráveis para de suportar um novo ciclo de cultivo."

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-08-31 20:51:17 GMT)
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Here is another page about the same practice, here called "coivara":

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coivara


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_cultivation
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 04:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading comment
Thanks! After doing some more research myself 'shifting cultivation' is seems to be the right word for the Amazon context

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Catherine Howard: yes, "shifting cultivation" (or sometimes "shifting agriculture") is the phrase most often used by researchers in the region for this practice
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Catherine!
agree  T o b i a s
11 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Tobias!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Fallow System Farming


Explanation:
``Dryland farming is made possible mainly by the fallow system of farming, a practice dating from ancient times.``

As opposed to wetland systems.
For the source see the link below.


    Reference: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/200948/fallow-syst...
John Copestake (X)
Brazil
Local time: 04:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Reference comments


8 mins
Reference

Reference information:
A agricultura de pousio é definida como uma forma de cultivo marcada pela rotação de pequenas áreas (3 a 5 ha), por intervalos de tempo pequenos (2 a 4 anos), alternados com períodos de descanso da terra, onde cresce uma pequena capoeira na área (Silva, 1996).

http://www.google.dk/#hl=da&sclient=psy-ab&q="agricultura de... (terceira hiperligação)

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24
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