Impact of Shifting cultivation on ecosystem are :
(i) Shifting cultivators are blamed for the deforestation, land degradation, atmospheric pollution and global climatic change.
(ii) It has brought lots of changes in the ecological settings of the surroundings environment. The loss of forest cover influences the climate that contributes to loss of biodiversity.
(iii) Shifting cultivators affect the economic activity and threaten the livelihoods and cultural integrity of forestdependent people.
