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Agriculture and Rural Land Use

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show Extensive:agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor fertilizers and capital relative to the land area being farmed Intensive:agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capita  
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show agricultural methods depend on the size of the population. The larger the world population grows, the more innovations are made to make feeding the expanding population possible  
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Commercial Agriculture   show
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show deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain  
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Capital-Intensive vs Labor-intensive Agriculture   show
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Industrial Revolution's Effect on Agriculture   show
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Commercial Livestock Production   show
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Origins of Agriculture   show
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Intensive Subsistence Farming   show
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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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Commercial Grain Farming   show
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Hunting and Gathering   show
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Extensive Subsistence Farming   show
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show degradation of land, weeds are increased, chemicals in the water, pest infestation gone up  
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show grow crops such as coffee or sugarcane. Widespread through tropics in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, and Central and South America. Many crops are not native to plantations and are almost always exported to other countries rather than consumed locally  
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Fertile Crescent   show
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Transhumance   show
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Maladaptive Diffusion   show
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Mixed and Specialty Crop Farming   show
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