Shifting cultivation involves clearing and burning forest areas for temporary agriculture, leading to deforestation, erosion, desertification, and loss of biodiversity as forests are destroyed. However, it also benefits the environment by recycling nutrients into used land, improving sustainability, and providing organic pest management. The challenges are balancing these adverse impacts with the environmental benefits of the practice.

1. Shifting Cultivation
Adverse Impacts
- Deforestation
- Causes erosion
- desertification
- destruction of water sheds
- Uneconomical
- Loss of biodiversity
- Pollution of water from coastal areas ( oil residue / raw sewage )
- Restricts intensity of land use
- Reduce rate of environment degration
Benefits
- Help used land get back nutrients lost
- Recycle
- Save resources
- Improves sustainability and productivity of agriculture
- Easy to grow crops quickly after process
- Environmentally friendly as it is organic farming
- Form of weed control
- Play a part in pest management
- Reduce incidence of soil-borne diseases
Challenges
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