Exam II Flashcards
an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems (trees on farms)
agroforestry
a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agriculture production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s
Green Revolution
large-scale production of crops for sale, intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets. In commercial farming crops such as wheat, maize, tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana, cotton are harvested and sold into world markets
commercial agriculture
self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families
subsistence agriculture
idespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, population unbalance, or government policies
famine
growth in crop amount
yield increases
growth in farm land
agricultural increases
genetically modified organism – risks of them whether making them is ethical, whether food produced with them is safe, and whether it is good for the environment to harvest such crops
GMOs
the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system
Demographic Transition Model
a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing
population pyramid
