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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adaptive strategies | group's system of economic production. In non-industrial societies, it is usually based on food production. |
| agrarian | concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land |
| agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. |
| agricultural industrialization | process whereby the farm has moved from being the centerpiece of agricultural production to become one part of an integrated string of vertically organized industrial processes including production, storage, processing, distribution, marketing and retailing |
| agricultural landscape | The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields. Effects how much yield one gets from their plants. |
| agricultural location model | An attempt to explain the pattern of agricultural land use in terms of accessibility, costs, distance, and prices. |
| agricultural origins | Where or how agriculture began. |
| agriculture | The raising of crops and animals for human use |
| animal domestication | When animals are tamed and used for food and profit. |
| aquaculture | the raising of plants or animals, such as fish or shellfish, in or at the bottom of the sea, a lake, a river, or other body of water |
| biorevolution | The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies. |
| biotechnology | the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments |
| collective farm | a farm or group of farms run by the government, as in a communist state |
| commercial farming | the raising of crops and livestock for sale in markets |
| core/periphery | Core countries have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows. Periphery countries usually have less development and are poorer countries. |
| crop rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. |
| cultivation regions | regions in which large amounts of agriculture take place |
| dairying | an agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock, most commonly cows and goats, for dairy products such as milk, cheese and butter |
| debt | money or goods or services owed by one person to another |
| diffusion | process by which molecules tend to move from an area where they are more concentrated to an area where they are less concentrated |
| double cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. |
| economic activity | any action that relates to the making, buying, and selling of goods and services |
| environmental modification | changes made to the environment. e.g., the use of pesticides to grow crops and the effects it has on the soil and environment; soil erosion and desertification caused by changes made to the environment. |
| extractive industry | businesses that take mineral resources from the earth. |
| farm crisis | During war, higher demand farmers bought land. Then demand goes down, overproduction, no money to pay off loans. Dust Bowl. |
| farming | working the land as an occupation or way of life |
| feedlot | a building where livestock are fattened for market |
| first agricultural revolution | dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication |
| fishing | the act of someone who fishes as a diversion |
| food chain | a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
| forestry | the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber |
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