Agriculture unit vocabulary Flashcards
Memorize for quiz thursday.
System of food production involving everything everything from the development of seeds to the marketing and sale of food products at the market.
Agribusiness
Growing plants or raising animals to produce food for sustenance or sale at the marketplace
Agriculture
Using living organisms to produce or change plant or animal products
Biotechnology
Farm that makes heavy use of machinery in the process
Capital Intensive farm
Growing food that is to be sold in grocery markets
Commercial Farming
Growing milk based products for the marketplace
Dairying
Effort to preserve natural farmland by forgiving international debts owed by developing countries in exchange for those countries protecting natural land resources from further destruction
Debt For Nature Swap
Loss of habitable land to the expansion of deserts.
Desertification
Planting and harvesting a crop on a field more than once a year
Double cropping
Dividing a farm into plots of land for villagers
Enclosure movement
Farming for their own good while maximizing free time, and changing farming ways when population grows.
Ester Boserup
Using vast amounts of land to grow food for family consumption.
Extensive subsistence agriculture
Mass starvation resulting from prolonged undernutrition in a region during a period.
Famine
Development of seed agriculture and the use of animals 12000 years ago.First agricultural revolution
First agricultural revolution
Form of biotech that uses scientific, genetic manipulation of crop and animal products to improve productivity of products.
Genetic modification
Began in 1940s, developed a new strain of hybrid seeds and fertilizers that increased crop output
Green Revolution
Nomadic people who do not remain stationary but follow herds of wild animals and forge for plants for survival.
Hunters and gatherers
cultivating a small amount of land very efficiently for family consumption
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Practice of mixing many types of seeds on one plot of land.
Intertillage
Farm that used much manual labour.
Labor intensive farming
Price a farmer must pay for each acre.
Land Rent
Extensive commercial grain farm where grains are grown and exported to others.
Large scale grain farm
Farming involving barley, wheat, vine, and tree crops and grazing for sheep and goats; primarily associated with the regions around the Mediterranean sea.
Mediterranean Agriculture
Zone around a city in which milk can be produced and transported without spoilage.
Milkshed
Category of agriculture in which farmers both grow crops and raise animals.
Mixed crop and livestock farming
System of agricultural land distribution in which all villagers worked on one large plot of community farmland to produce a crop to eat.
Open lot system
Breeding and herding of animals to produce food, shelter and clothing for survival.
Pastoralism
Farming that involves in large scale operations, known as plantations and agricultural estates, specializing in the farming of one or two high demand crops for export, usually to MDCs.
Plantation agriculture
Raising animals on a plot of land on which they can feed or graze.
Ranching
Developed later than vegetative planting, this type of farming involves planting seeds rather than simply planting parts of the plant.
Seed agriculture
Form of extensive subsistence agriculture in which farmers rotate the fields they cultivate to allow the soil to refresh the nutrients.
Shifting cultivation
Common way that subsistence farmers prepare a new plot of land for farming. It is a system that in which the land is cleared by cutting the existing plants on the land and burning them to created a cleared land.
Slash and burn agriculture
Loss of the soil nutrients in the top layer.
Soil Erosion
Growing food only for feeding the family.
Subsistence farming
Rate of crop production that can be maintained over time.
Subsistence yield
Plot of land prepared by subsistence farmers using slash and burn.
Swidden
Period in which agriculture became globalized and industrialized, and new technology increased the food supply.
Third agricultural revolution
Moving animal herds up elevation to cooler areas during summer, and down to the hot areas during winter.
Transhumance
Commercial flower farm or a garden.
Truck farm
Not getting enough nutrition to support living.
Undernutrition
Process of cultivating by simply cutting off a stem of another plant or by dividing roots of a plant. It was developed before seed agriculture.
Vegetative planting
