chalenges for subsistence agrivulture

Question 1

2 challenges

Answer 1

must ffed an increasing number of peole

must grow for export rather than direct consumption due to th e international trade approach

Question 2

how do subsistence farmers feed more people

Answer 2

1-new farming methods (machinery)

2- land is left to fallow for shoter periods of time

Question 3

Boserup’s five stage s of intensification offarmland

Answer 3

1-forest fallow (used for 2 yrs and fallow for 20)
2-bush fallow (used for 8 years fallow for 10)
3- short fallow (used for 2 years fallow for 2)
4- annual cropping (used every year, rotated monthly)
5- muticropping (fileds used several times a year and never fallow)