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For the better part of the last half-century, the Amazonian forests have been plagued by deforestation from human farming activities, and now, new research suggests that farming without the use of fire, like the indigenous populations did in the Pre-Columbian times, could be the key ingredient in feeding people and managing sustainable land in the Amazon and other regions threatened by deforestation. For hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in Central America, indigenous cultures...