Agriculture Vocab
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| show | characteristic of farmers or their way of life
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| show | highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
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| show | the cultural landscape of agricultural areas
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| show | deals with both the location - allocation process of land uses by farmers, and the spatial organization of agricultural land uses
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| agriculture | show 🗑
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| animal domestication | show 🗑
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| show | the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
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| biotechnology | show 🗑
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| collective farm | show 🗑
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| show | large scale farming and ranching operations that have vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology.
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| show | putting much labor and capital into a piece of land to increase the rate at which goods are produced or work is completed
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| extensive agriculture | show 🗑
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| dairying | show 🗑
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| debt-for-nature swap | show 🗑
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| double cropping | show 🗑
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| show | the extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering and mining
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| secondary activities | show 🗑
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| show | associated with providing services — such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs
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| show | service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance and legal services.
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| show | changes made to the environment - like the use of pesticides to grow crops and the effect that has on the soil and environment; soil erosion and desertification caused by changes made to the environment.
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| shifting cultivation | show 🗑
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| show | the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
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| feedlot | show 🗑
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| show | dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
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| show | the introduction of high-yield crops and chemical fertilizers and pesticides into traditional Asian agricultural systems, most notably paddy rice farming, with increases in production and ecological damage
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| hunting and gathering | show 🗑
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| intensive subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
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| show | small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants. It is distinguishable from other types of farming by the diversity of crops grown on a small area of land or in greenhouses
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| show | accounts for virtually all olive oil produced worldwide, 60% of wine production, 45% of grape production, 25% of dried nuts (mostly almonds, chestnuts, and walnuts), 20% of citrus production, and about 12% of total cereal production.
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| show | economic system where single agency makes all decisions about production and allocation of goods/services; state/government controls factors of production and makes all decisions about their use and distribution of income; also known as a command economy
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| plant domestication | show 🗑
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| show | a system of monoculture (growth of a single crop like cotton) for producing export crops requiring relatively large amounts of land and capital; originally dependent on slave labor
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| show | a resource that must be depleted to be used, such as petroleum
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| show | conducted pioneering research on the origins and dispersal of plant and animal domestication. He believed that domestication did not develop in response to hunger.
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| Second agricultural revolution | show 🗑
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| suitcase farm | show 🗑
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| longlots | show 🗑
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| show | system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains - relies on descriptions of land and natural features such as streams or trees. Because it was imprecise, the U.S. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique for the rectangular survey system.
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| show | a rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior, also called rectangular survey system
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| show | (mechanization, chemical farming, food manufacturing) currently in progress, it has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
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| “Tragedy of the commons” | show 🗑
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| show | a seasonal regular movement of pastoralists (livestock raisers) and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures.
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| Truck farm | show 🗑
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