many classifications, based on cultivation practices, sources of food production or other factors.For simplicity, a comparatively more detailed classification is adopted, which is dependent on differences in economy with respect to food sources:

1) predominantly hunters and gathers, but practising shifting cultivation to a small exent.
2) depending mainly on shifting cultivation although indulging in some hunting, fishing or gathering.
3) depending almost entirely on shifting cultivation with almost no other source of food production.
4) predonminantly pas toralists, but also practising some shifting cultivation.
5) depending mainly on shifting cultivation but with some pastoralism.
6) depending mainly on shifting cultivation but with some permanent form of cultivation.
7) some shifting cultivation, some permanent cultivation and also some pastoralism
8) depending mainly on some permanent form of agriculture with some shifting cultivation.