Which Statement About Most Shifting Cultivators Is NOT True

question 75

Multiple Choice

Which statement about most shifting cultivators is NOT true?

• A) Their traditional methods have endured for millennia and reveal a deep knowledge of the environment.
• B) They can return more calories of food per energy unit spent in food production than can contemporary mechanized agriculture.
• C) Their unsustainable type of agriculture tends to be ecologically damaging.
• D) In poor countries with large populations of landless peasants, shifting cultivators are often encroaching on the forests.

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