Chapter 10: Agriculture
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| Adaptive Strategies | The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment
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| Agrarian | Characteristic of farmers or their way of life
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| Agribusiness | Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
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| Agricultural Landscape | Cultural landscape of agricultural areas
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| Agricultural Location Model | Deals with location-allocation process of land uses by farmers and the spatial organization of agricultural land uses
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| Agriculture | Cultivation of domesticated crops and raising of domesticated animals
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| Animal Domestication | Animals kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding is human-controlled and whose survival is dependent on humans
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| Aquaculture | Cultivation of aquatic organisms (fish, shellfish) especially for food
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| Biotechnology | Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof to make or modify products or processes for specific use
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| Collective Farm | System of agricultural organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated via wages, but receive a share of the farm's net productivity
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| Commercial Agriculture | Large-scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
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| Intensive Agriculture | Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
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| Extensive Agriculture | Use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
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| Crop Rotation | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid soil exhaustion
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| Dairying | Class of agricultural or animal husbandry enterprises, raising female lactating livestock for long-term milk production
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| Debt-for-Nature Swap | Agreement between developing nation in debt and at least one of its creditors; minimize debt's negative effect on developing nation and minimize environmental destruction that developing nations often cause
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| Double Cropping | Second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
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| Primary Activities | Extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering, and mining
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