ch10 vocab Word Scramble
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Agriculture | Production of food and goods through farming and forestry. |
Agribusiness | that refers to the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. |
Commercial Agriculture | The production of crops for sale, crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets (e.g. supermarkets), and any non-food crops such as cotton and tobacco. |
Extensive Agriculture | is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed. |
Intense Agriculture | characterized by the high inputs of capital, labour, or heavy usage of technologies such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area. |
Agrarian | is a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that a rural or semi-rural lifestyle.(Cleaner safer farms) |
Debt-for-Nature Swap | financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in conservation measures. |
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