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AP HUG U5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| agriculture | land for farming or raising livestock |
| dietary energy consumption | total amount of food ingested (kcal) |
| food security | reliable access to food for people |
| subsistence agriculture | production of food for the farmer, rather than for sale |
| intensive agriculture | maximizing output of crops from land |
| extensive agriculture | low labor input for crops per land area |
| commercial agriculture | large scale production farming for profit |
| commercial agribusiness | large scale food production into a global supply chain by corporations |
| supply chain | connected networks of producers and distributers |
| shifting cultivation | farmers plant crops on land and then move to let original land to recover |
| slash-and-burn | cutting down vegetation and burning to provide nutrients |
| swidden | cleared plot of land that is ready for planting |
| pastrol nomadism | herding animals moving seasonally (follow water, vegetation across vast areas) |
| transhumance | seasonal movement of livestock between pastures |
| wet rice | planting rice and then moving them into flooded fields |
| sawah/paddy | flooded field for rice cultivation/field where rice is grown |
| monocropping vs intercropping | growing a single crop vs multiple on the same plot of land |
| crop rotation | alternating crops in a field across seasons |
| Von Thuen model | agriculture land use theory |
| green revolution | mid 20th century revolution - introduce high yield crops, fertilizers, pesticides |
| value added (and agriculture) | increasing economic worth of raw goods |
| economy of scale (and agriculture) | increasing production and lowers the cost per unit |
| fallow | farmland left uncultivated for a season |
| plantation | large scale farm tropical developing areas |
| cereal grain/grain | grasses grown for edible seeds/ seed of cereal grain |
| milkshed | region surrounding a city which fresh milk is supplied |
| horticulture | small scale cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| truck farming | mechanized agriculture for selling products |
| sustainable agriculture | farming method that preserve long term productivity + minimize pollution |
| ridge tillage | crops planted on permanent raised ridges |
| Ester Boserup | population growth forces subsistence farmers to move from low labor methods to more intensive techniques |
| desertification | degradation of fertile land into desert like conditions |
| aquaculture | cultivation of marine life in controlled environment |
| GMO | genetically modified organism - resists pests, higher yield per seed |
| miracle seeds | high yielding varieties of wheat and rice developed in the green revolution |
| food desert | developing areas with limited access to affordable, nutritious food |
| ethanol | renewable biofuel from corn |
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anxinangela