Usually means: Cyclical, temporary land and crop use.
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  2. shifting cultivation: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shifting cultivation: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (shifting cultivation)

noun:  An agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned (usually when the soil shows signs of exhaustion, or when overrun by weeds) and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation.

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