Agriculture and Rural Land Use
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| show | economic activities in which natural resources are made available for use or further processing, including mining, agriculture, forestry, and fishing
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| show | Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for there own use. Vegetative planting likely was originated in SE Asia and seed agriculture originated in W. India, N. China and Ethiopia (Sauer).
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| show | Extensive : small input costs, wide pastures for animals for grazing /lower yields, large swaths of land required
Intensive: high yield per acre (less land to produce the same amount)/energy requirements, pesticides/herbicides
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| show | Capitol: uses mechanical goods, such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods- requiring very little human labor.
Labor: Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
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| show | Intensive agriculture is the primary subsistence pattern of large-scale, populous societies. It results in much more food being produced per acre compared to other subsistence patterns. It is characterized by high inputs of labor per unit land area
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| Extensive Subsistence Agriculture | show 🗑
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| Transhumance | show 🗑
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| show | The hypothesis that population growth compels subsistence farmers to consider new farming approaches that produce enough food to take care of the additional people.
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| Industrial Revolution's Effect on Agriculture | show 🗑
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| The Green Revolution | show 🗑
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| Maladaptive Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | all agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling, not necessarily for local consumption
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| show | the mass raising of livestock for the purpose of selling and not necessarily for local consumption
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| show | Commercial grain farming is the farming of grain for the purpose of selling mass quantities of it. Grain is an important part of the world's diet. In Central USA there is a lot of grain farming going on.
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| Tropical Plantations | show 🗑
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| show | Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples, which are produced, usually in developing countries, for export
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