FOOD WASTE REDUCTION AND SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
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Burning the forest floor so that any weeds could not regrow.
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Removing the roots of tubers and yams to enable new grass crops to grow instead.
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Using fire stick farming to encourage the regrowth of plants and new grass when rain arrived.
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Harvesting all of the seed crops in a particular area so that plants would regrow during the following season.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fire stick farming is a way of managing the environment Aboriginal communities have practiced for tens of thousands of years. It improves the health of the land and wildlife by setting cool burns, generally spot fires with smaller, more controlled flames during the early, cool dry season.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indigenous fire management involves the lighting of ‘cool’ fires in targeted areas during the early dry season between March and July. The fires burn slowly, reducing fuel loads and creating fire breaks. Not all the area is burnt, with the end result a mosaic of burnt and unburnt country.
Detailed explanation-3: -A series of aerial photographs taken around 1947 reveal that the Karajarri people practised fire-stick farming in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia for thousands of years, until they left the desert in the 1950s and 1960s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indigenous Australian methods of agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture included crop-growing, fish-trapping and controlled burning (’fire-stick farming’) to encourage new growth in native plants and to facilitate hunting.