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Food Production Flashcards

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1
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Farming

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The cultivation of crops and rearing of animals for food and other products

It can be considered as a system

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Physical inputs of farming

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Climate

Relief

Soil and drainage

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Human inputs of farming

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Labour
capital
fertilizer
pesticides
seeds
energy
farm buildings

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Processes of farming

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The farmer as a decision maker

Growing crops/ rearing animals

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Outputs of farming

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Crops, animal products, animals, profit

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Arable farming

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Growing crops

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Pastoral farming

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Farming animals

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Mixed farming

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Both growing crops and farming animals

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Monoculture farming

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Growing only one type of crop

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Commercial farming

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Farming in order to gain a profit

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Subsistence farming

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Farming in order to produce food for family

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Extensive farming

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Farm size is large in comparison with inputs of Labour or capital

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Intensive farming

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Farms size is small in comparison with the number of people that work there or the capital

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Shifting/ nomadic

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Farmers move from one are to another

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Sedentary

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Farming and settlement is permanent

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Factors affecting farming

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Relief

Soils

Rainfall

Temperature

Government aid

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How relief affects farming

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The flatter the land, the larger and more efficient the farm

18
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How soils affect farming

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The deeper and richer the soil, the more intensive the farming (arable) and the higher the outputs

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How rainfall affects farming

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Wet areas produce good grass and are used for rearing animals while drier areas are arable (cereals)

20
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How temperature affects farming

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Warmer climate has a longer growing season and produces cereals and fruit.

Colder climate concentrate more on pastoral farming

21
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How government aid affects farming

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Grants for stock

Machinery and guaranteed fixed prices

Fertilizer, mechanization and better stock have increased yields and enabled more land to be farmed while the size of farms have increased and the number of people have decreased

22
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Background of commercial sugar farming in Swaziland

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Sugar industry accounts for 18% of swazilands GDP

Eastern Swaziland e.g Mumbai estate in SE Africa

Sugar cane grown on floodplain of Usutu River

23
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Natural inputs of commercial sugar farming in Swaziland

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High annual temps 15-29c

Lots of sunshine

Flat land

Fertile alluvial soils

Insufficient rain but rivers available for irrigation

24
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Human inputs of commercial sugar farming in Swaziland

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Large capital inputs from TNCs

Skilled and unskilled Labour

Market from govt

Trade agreements

25
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Processes of commercial sugar farming in swaziland

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Irrigated cane takes 12 months to grow and ripen

Burnt to remove leaves

Cut and taken to sugar mill

26
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Outputs of commercial sugar farming in Swaziland

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600 000 tonnes of sugar per year

Molasses used to make alcohol

Bagasse used as animal feed

27
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Why soils decline

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Overgrazing

Over cropping

Overburning

Deforestation

Heavy machinery

28
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How soils can be conserved

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Contour ploughing to stop water washing away soil

Terracing to stabilize hillsides

Strip cultivation and afforestation

Crop rotation to preserve soil fertility and structure

Reduce stock density to avoid overgrazing

Zero-tillage agriculture

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Small scale subsistence farming in Swaziland

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Most of the rural population are subsistence farmers

Farm growing mostly maize and rearing cattle less than 3 hectares

30
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Inputs of SSSFIS

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tropical climate with seasonal rains

Soil varies in quality

Small plots

Family Labour

Little use of fertilizer (some manure)

Land held in trust by Swazi king

Simple irrigation in certain areas

31
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Processes of SSSFIS

A

Boys herd cattle

Pasture burnt in dry season to encourage growth of new grass

Fields ploughed in June then maize planted in October with rains and harvested in April

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