Agriculture & Rural Geography
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| 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. | show 🗑
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| the art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption. | show 🗑
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| an agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. | show 🗑
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| a form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes. | show 🗑
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| form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods - a process requiring very little human labor. | show 🗑
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| show | COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
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| show | DAIRYING
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| the process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like. | show 🗑
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| show | DOMESTICATION
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| an agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. | show 🗑
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| places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to as a factory farm | show 🗑
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| show | FERTILE CRESCENT
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| foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiency. | show 🗑
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| the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizeers transferred from the developed to the developing world to alleviete the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe. | show 🗑
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| show | HUNTING AND GATHERING
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| show | INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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| any kind of of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield. | show 🗑
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| show | LABOR-INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE
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| show | LIVESTOCK RANCHING
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| show | MECHANIZATION
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| agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean-style climates of Western Europe, California, Chile & Australia, in which specialty crops such as grapes, avocados, olives, nuts, fruits, and vegetables comprise profitable agricultural operations | show 🗑
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| a type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter | show 🗑
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| chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants, but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who igest the chemicals | show 🗑
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| an agricultural economy found in communist countries in which the govenment controls both agricultural production and distribution | show 🗑
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| a large, frequently foreign-owned piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop. | show 🗑
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| process that occurs when soils in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation. In arid areas, water evaporates quickly off the ground surface, leaving salty residues that render the soil infertile | show 🗑
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| the use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost. Plots are then abandoned, and farmers move on to new sites. | show 🗑
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| show | SLASH-AND-BURN AGRICULTURE
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| show | SPECIALTY CROPS
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| any farm economy in which most of the crops are grown for family or local consumption | show 🗑
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| land that is prepared fro agriculture by using the slash-&-burn method | show 🗑
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| loss of the top fertile layer of soil is lost through erosion. It is a tremwndous problem in areas with fragile soils, steep slopes, or torrential seasonal rains. | show 🗑
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| show | TRANSHUMANCE
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| the process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile land. | show 🗑
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| show | VON THUNEN MODEL
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