Slash and Burn Agriculture, Morondava, Madagascar

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Description: English: Corn planted on recently burned Malagasy Western Dry Forest. The Author was told by a local person that burning has become more widespread in 2009, as a result of the increasing world marked price for rice. Date: 19 January 2010, 14:19. Source: originally posted to Flickr as Slash and Burn Agriculture, Morondava, Madagascar. Author: Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium. Camera location20° 14′ 49.7″ S, 44° 25′ 21.73″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-20.247139; 44.422702.