Agriculture unit vocabulary

Question 1

System of food production involving everything everything from the development of seeds to the marketing and sale of food products at the market.

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Agribusiness

Question 2

Growing plants or raising animals to produce food for sustenance or sale at the marketplace

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Agriculture

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Using living organisms to produce or change plant or animal products

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Biotechnology

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Farm that makes heavy use of machinery in the process

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Capital Intensive farm

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Growing food that is to be sold in grocery markets

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Commercial Farming

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Growing milk based products for the marketplace

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Dairying

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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

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Debt For Nature Swap

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Loss of habitable land to the expansion of deserts.

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Desertification

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Planting and harvesting a crop on a field more than once a year

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Double cropping

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Dividing a farm into plots of land for villagers

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Enclosure movement

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Farming for their own good while maximizing free time, and changing farming ways when population grows.

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Ester Boserup

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Using vast amounts of land to grow food for family consumption.

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Extensive subsistence agriculture

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Mass starvation resulting from prolonged undernutrition in a region during a period.

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Famine

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Development of seed agriculture and the use of animals 12000 years ago.First agricultural revolution

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First agricultural revolution

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Form of biotech that uses scientific, genetic manipulation of crop and animal products to improve productivity of products.

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Genetic modification

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Began in 1940s, developed a new strain of hybrid seeds and fertilizers that increased crop output

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Green Revolution

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Nomadic people who do not remain stationary but follow herds of wild animals and forge for plants for survival.

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Hunters and gatherers

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cultivating a small amount of land very efficiently for family consumption

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Intensive subsistence agriculture

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Practice of mixing many types of seeds on one plot of land.

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Intertillage

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Farm that used much manual labour.

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Labor intensive farming

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Price a farmer must pay for each acre.

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Land Rent

Question 22

Extensive commercial grain farm where grains are grown and exported to others.

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Large scale grain farm

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Farming involving barley, wheat, vine, and tree crops and grazing for sheep and goats; primarily associated with the regions around the Mediterranean sea.

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Mediterranean Agriculture

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Zone around a city in which milk can be produced and transported without spoilage.

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Milkshed

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Category of agriculture in which farmers both grow crops and raise animals.

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Mixed crop and livestock farming

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System of agricultural land distribution in which all villagers worked on one large plot of community farmland to produce a crop to eat.

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Open lot system

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Breeding and herding of animals to produce food, shelter and clothing for survival.

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Pastoralism

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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.

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Plantation agriculture

Question 29

Raising animals on a plot of land on which they can feed or graze.

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Ranching

Question 30

Developed later than vegetative planting, this type of farming involves planting seeds rather than simply planting parts of the plant.

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Seed agriculture

Question 31

Form of extensive subsistence agriculture in which farmers rotate the fields they cultivate to allow the soil to refresh the nutrients.

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Shifting cultivation

Question 32

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.

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Slash and burn agriculture

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Loss of the soil nutrients in the top layer.

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Soil Erosion

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Growing food only for feeding the family.

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Subsistence farming

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Rate of crop production that can be maintained over time.

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Subsistence yield

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Plot of land prepared by subsistence farmers using slash and burn.

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Swidden

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Period in which agriculture became globalized and industrialized, and new technology increased the food supply.

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Third agricultural revolution

Question 38

Moving animal herds up elevation to cooler areas during summer, and down to the hot areas during winter.

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Transhumance

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Commercial flower farm or a garden.

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Truck farm

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Not getting enough nutrition to support living.

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Undernutrition

Question 41

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.

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Vegetative planting