Agriculture

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The process by which humans alter the landscape in order to raise crops and livestock for consumption and trade.

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Agriculture

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Farmers focus on raising one specific crop to sell for profit

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Commercial Agriculture

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People travel from place to place with their herds of domesticated animals

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Subsistence Agriculture

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The growing of crops that people planted, raised, and harvested, probably began after animal domestication

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Plant Domestication

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Raising and caring for animals by humans for protection or food

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Animal Domesication

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Origin of farming, marked by the first domestication of plants and animals, farming consisted of subsistence farming

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First Agricultural Revolution

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Farmers build a series of steps into the side of a hill

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Terrace Farming

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The removal of large tracts of forests

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Deforestation

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The transition from fertile soil to desert

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Desertification

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Accompanied the Industrial Revolution, began in Great Britain in the 18th century, involved the mechanization of agricultural production, advances in transportation, development of large scale irrigation, and changes to consumption patterns of agricultural goods.

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Second Agricultural Revolution

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A series of laws enacted by the British government that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use that had previously been common land used by peasant farmers

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Enclosure Acts

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Started in the mid-20th century, advances in science, research, and technology; better more efficient farming equipment and practices, particularly in the area of vastly improved varieties of grain

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Third Agricultural Revolution

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The development of higher-yielding, disease-resistant, faster-growing varieties of grains

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Green Revolution

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A process by which humans use engineering techniques to change DNA of a seed

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GMOs

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Practiced in rid and semi-arid climates, nomad rely on the animals for survival

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Pastoral Nomadism

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A form of commercial agriculture found in the developing world, livestock graze over large ares while the owners remain in the same place

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Ranching

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Subsistence agriculture in which farmers, usually in tropical climates regions, move from one field to another

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Shifting Cultivation

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A large commercial farm that specializes in one crop, usually found in the low latitudes (tropics), and in hot, humid climates with substantial precipitation

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Plantation

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Found mostly in California and the Southeast in order to take advantage of long growing seasons

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Market Gardening

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Similar to Market Gardening, products are traditionally driven to urban markets a sold

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Truck Farming

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The geographic distance that milk is delivered

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Milk Shed

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Practiced in regions with hot-dry summers, mild winters, narrow valleys, and often some type of irrigation system

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Mediterranean Agriculture

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Agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used

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Extensive Farming

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Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the space being used

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Intensive Farming

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The planting and harvesting on the same parcel of land twice per year

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Double-cropping

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When farmers grow more than two or more crops simultaneously on the same field

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Intercropping

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Confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement

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Feed Lots

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The integration of various steps of production in the food processing industry

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Agribusiness

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System of resources, producer transportation, communication, information, and consumers

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Supply Chain

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A process used by corporations to gather resources and transform them into goods a the transport them to consumers

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Commodity Chain

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The raising of a single cash crop on large plots of land

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Monoculture

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A farm in which no one lives on the farm and the harvesting and planting is performed by farmers who live nearby or by migratory labor

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Suitcase Farm

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Transportation networks that keep food cool throughout a trip

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Cool Chains

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Crops not essential to human survival but that have a high profit margin

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Luxury Crops

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An effort to promote higher income for producers and for more sustainable farming practices

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Fair Trade Movement

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Groups of homes located near each other in a hamlet or village

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Clustered Settlement

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A pattern in which farmers live in homes spread throughout the countryside

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Dispersed Settlement

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In England, fields often had irregular shapes that reflected the location of physical features and traditional patterns of use. Plot boundaries were described using this

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Metes and Bounds

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The government organized land into townships, areas six miles long and six miles wide. Each square mile, or section, consisted of 640 acres, and it could be divided into smaller lots, such as half sections or quarter sections.

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Township and Range

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Farms were long thin sections of land that ran perpendicular to a river

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French Long-lot System

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An economic model that suggested a pattern for the types of products that farmers would produce at different positions relative to the market where they sold their goods

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Von-Thunen Model

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A type of culture that includes market gardening/truck farming, and dairying would occur

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Horticulture

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Can be used to indicate the starting position for each land use relative to the market

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Bid Rent Culture

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Naturally occurring beneficial conditions that would prompt farmers to plant crops different from those predicted by von Thunen’s model

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Comparative Advantage

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An area of recreational parks or other undeveloped land

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Greenbelt

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Food produced without the use of pesticides

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Organic Food

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The practice of raising and harvesting fish and other forms of food that live in water

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Aquaculture

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The fastest growing form of food production on the planet and responsible for approximately 50 percent of the world’s seafood

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Blue Revolution

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The savings in cost per unit due to increasing the level of production

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Economies of Scale