Chapter 11

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The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial processes, includes activities ranging from seed production, to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products

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Agribusiness

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Relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land

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Agrarian

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The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption

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Agriculture

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The use of machinery in agriculture (tractors)

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Agricultural industrialization

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Domestication or animals for selling or using byproducts

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Animal domestication

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The cultivation or farming of aquatic species, such as fish

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Aquaculture

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A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, go modify products, to make of modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes

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Biotechnology

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A public register showing details of ownership of the real property in a district, including boundaries, and tax assessments

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Cadastral system

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A farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community

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Collective farming

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All agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling, not necessarily for local consumption

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Commercial agriculture

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The system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility

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Crop rotation

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An agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock, most commonly cows and goats, for products such as cheese, milk and butter

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Dairying

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Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season

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Fallow

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Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value, allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiency

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Genetically Modified Organisms

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The development of higher yield and fast growing crops, through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those supply in those regions of the globe

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Green revolution

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The offspring of two organisms of different species or varieties

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Hybrid

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Growing plants with liquids, gravel, sand, without using soil

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Hydroponics

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An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American west

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Livestock ranching

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The business of growing fruit and vegetables on a commercial sale; truck farming

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Market gardening

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• to distribute

- to limit

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Metes and bounds

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The first

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Primogeniture

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The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost

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Shifting cultivation

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The surplus required to maintain ecosystems services at the same or increasing level over time

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Sustainable yield

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Settlements

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Township and range