Chapter 25
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cash crop | farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family |
| jute | plant fiber used to make string and cloth |
| green revolution | program, begun in the 1960s, to produce higher-yielding, more productive strains of wheat, rice, and other food crops |
| biomass | plant and animal waste used especially as a source of fuel |
| cottage industry | a business that employs workers in their homes |
| ecotourism | tourism based on concern for the environment |
| sustainable development | technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area |
| poaching | illegal hunting of protected animals |
| Chipko | India's "tree-hugger" movement that protects forests through reforestation and by supporting limited timber production |
| nuclear proliferation | the spreading development of nuclear arms |
| Dalits | the "oppressed"; in India, people assigned to the lowest social class |
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