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| show | The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial purposes. It includes activities ranging from seed production, to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products.
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| show | The art and science of producing food from the land and tending live stock for the purpose of human consumption.
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| Animal husbandry | show 🗑
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| show | A form of tech. that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes.
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| Capital-intensive agriculture | show 🗑
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| Commercial agricultural economy | show 🗑
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| Dairying | show 🗑
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| show | The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like.
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| show | The conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves.
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| show | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area.
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| Fertile Crescent | show 🗑
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| show | Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a lab for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value allowing growers greater control, predictability and efficiency.
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| show | The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.
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| show | The killing of wild animals and fish as well a sthe gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance.
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| Labor-intensive agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geograpic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West.
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| show | In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with techology or machines.
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| Mediterranean agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.
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| Planned agricultural economy | show 🗑
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| show | Process that occurs when soils in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation. In arid climates, water evaporates quickly off the ground surface, leaving salty residues that render the soil infertile.
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| show | Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples, which are produced, usually in developing countries, for export.
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| show | Any farm economy in which most crops are grown for nearly exclusive family or local consumption.
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| show | Land that is prepared for agriculture by using the slash-and-burn method.
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| show | The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in the winter, and highland areas in the summer.
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