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show | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
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Agricultural revolution | show 🗑
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Agriculture | show 🗑
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Combine | show 🗑
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show | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
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show | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
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show | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting.
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show | The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories(calories in the United States)
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show | Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
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Food security | show 🗑
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show | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
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show | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
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show | A for of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
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show | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
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show | A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in a field.
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show | A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
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Shifting cultivation | show 🗑
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show | Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
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Subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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Sustainable agriculture | show 🗑
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Swidden | show 🗑
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Thresh | show 🗑
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Transhumance | show 🗑
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show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or "exchange of commodities"
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Wet rice | show 🗑
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Winnow | show 🗑
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Acid deposition | show 🗑
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Acid precipitation | show 🗑
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show | Concentration of trace substances, such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and solid particulates, at a greater level that occurs in average air.
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show | The amount of oxygen require by aquatic bacteria to decompose a give load of organic waste; a measure of water pollution.
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show | An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprise a greater volume of than the inputs.
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Bulk-reducing industry | show 🗑
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Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) | show 🗑
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show | Manufacturing based in homes rather than in factories, commonly found prior to the Industrial Revolution.
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show | Metals, including iron, that are utilized in the production of iron and steel.
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show | A form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.
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show | The anticipated increase in Earth's temperature caused by carbon dioxide trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface.
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show | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
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show | Shipment of parts and materials to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed.
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show | An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses.
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show | A factory built by a U.S. company in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico.
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New international division of labor | show 🗑
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Nonferrous | show 🗑
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Nonpoint-source pollution | show 🗑
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show | A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers.
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Ozone | show 🗑
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show | An atmospheric condition formed through a combination of weather conditions and pollution, especially from motor vehicle emission.
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Point-source pollution | show 🗑
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Post-Fordist production | show 🗑
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Right-to-work law | show 🗑
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Sanitary landfill | show 🗑
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show | Location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside a plant, such as land, labor, and capital.
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show | Location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory.
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Vertical integration | show 🗑
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