9. Countryside And Agriculture Flashcards
Rural
Countryside adj
I come from the rural are
A backwater
An area of a country where little of interesr happens
I uses to live in agricultural town but frankly it was such a vackwater that i moved to larger city
Rural depopulation
The long-term trend for people to migratebfrom countryside to cities, leaving a rural areas with few pople
Rural depopulationcan cause huge problems with local infrastructure, as there aren’t enough people to run the services and transport
Country dwellers
People who live in a countryside
A scarcity
A lack or shortage of smt
The worst problem i experienced in the country side was a real scarcity of sports events and music festivals
Scarcity of schools and colleges
Rural unemployment
Unemployment effecting rural workers specifically
Rural unemployment has been ameliorated by innovative internet start ups
Career options may be more limited , resulting in rural unemployment and long-term rural poverty in a worst cases
Rural poverty
Being extremely poor in the countryside
Rural poverty is a long-term situation exacerbated by lack of infrastructure and training
Exacerbate
Apsunkinti, pagilinti
Material considerations
Concerns about money and material possessions
You can’t only think about material considerations when deciding who to marry.
Conversely, life in the countryside has rewards which go beyond material considerations. For example, the abundance of natural resources such as land, wildlife forestry and water bodies means that a comparatively simple life can be lived at a subsistence level.
An abundance
A very high level of supply or availability of something
Wildlife
Animals living in nature naturaly
Forestry
The industry of growing and cutting trees
Responsible forestry company
Water bodies
Inland areas of water, rivers, lakes, reservoirs
My country is very arid and has almost no water bodies
Arid
Sausas, saysringas, tuscias, nuobodus
Subsistence
Adj producing just enough to live on
Subsistence farmers grow their own food but have little left to sell for profit
Self-sufficient smallholders
Not needing to import or buy resources from outside the farm or country
Self-sufficient in crops and fuel
Self-sufficient smallholders in this sence, safeguarding them from the changes in a wider economy
Smallholders
Farmers managing very small farms, usually with their families
I worked on a project training smallholders in South America in how to lobby politicians for reform
The wider economy
The national economy in a country
My business is growing despite the decline in the wider economy
To afflict
To affect, used for problems and diseases
Many forests in my area are afflicted by wood disease which attacks the trees
Animal husbandry
The skill of keeping animals
Crop rotation
The process of using different fields each year to keep the soil healthy
Some smallholders do not practise crop rotation, ad so their land becomes infertile
Infertile land
Nevaisinga zeme
Remote viewing
I took remote viewing tour of the museum and found it very impressive
Environmental awareness
An understanding of environment issues environmental awareness is part of the school curriculum these days for most children
Far-flung
Remote of far away
My fiancé lives in a very far-flung village but we keep in touch by skype
Cultural amenities
In a firm of museums, theatres, sporting events, music festivals, galeries
Become isolated
Families become isolated, especially as rural depopulations leaves fewer country dwellers
Methods of farming such as crop rotation and irrigation
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Become more in tune with natural world as a result
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Technology enables children to take distance learning and remote viewing they should be less isolated from their cultural heritage
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Quality of life
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