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Agricultural/Rural Land Use
Definition
ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES   the pattern formed by the many separate adjustments that people devise in order to obtain and use resources and solve immediate problems  
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AGARIAN   people or societies that are farmers and therefore promote agricultural interest  
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AGRIBUSINESS   commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations  
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AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION   the use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors ext.  
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AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE   the land that is used to farm on and what is chosen to put on the fields  
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AGRICULTURAL LOCATION MODEL   four generalized types of economic and agricultural activities, categorized according to relative economic yield per unit area and perishability or difficulty of delivering products to market  
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AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS   through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for there own use  
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AGRICULTURE   the deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain  
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ANIMAL DOMESTICATION   domestication of animals for selling or using byproducts  
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AQUACULTURE   the cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food  
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BIOREVOLUTION   the rapid transformation, or evolution, into post-humanism  
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BIOTECHNOLOGY   a set of biological techniques developed through basic research and now applied to research and product development  
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COLLECTIVE FARM   the farm, its buildings, and its machinery may be owned communally by the group, by an institution, or, as in communist countries, by the state  
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COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE   the production of crops for sale, crops intended for widespread distribution (e.g. supermarkets), and any non-food crops such as cotton and tobacco  
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CORE/PERIPHERY   the industrialized countries are identified as the core and the developing countries are the periphery  
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CROP ROTATION   a system of farming in which a regular succession of different crops are planted on the same land area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time  
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CULTIVATION REGIONS   regions were there is agricultural activity  
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DAIRYING   the business of a dairy  
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DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAP   an agreement between an organization, typically a nongovernmental organization (NGO), and a developing country that has forest resources  
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DIFFUSION   the transmission of ideas or materials from culture to culture, or from one area to another  
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