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| 1. The expression adaptive |
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| strategies is used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe a society’s system of economic penalism |
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| Of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. |
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| 1.Agriculture conducted on commercial principles, esp. using advanced technology. |
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| 4. Agricultural industrialization |
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| agriculture in the industry |
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| 5. Agricultural landscape |
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| The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields.. |
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| 6. Agricultural location model |
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| Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for there own use. |
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| The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide |
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| Domestication (from Latin domesticus) or taming is the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection... |
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| The cultivation of aquatic animals or plants for food |
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| The exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes. |
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| A jointly operated amalgamation of several farms, esp. one owned by the government. |
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| 14. Commercial agriculture (intensive, extensive) |
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| Commercial agriculture: The production of crops for sale, crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets |
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| Core-periphery theory is based on the notion that as one region or state expands in economic prosperity, it must engulf regions nearby |
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| Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons for various |
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| The business of producing, storing, and distributing milk and its products. |
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| Debt-for-nature swaps are financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt is forgiven in exchange |
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| 1.The spreading of something more widely. |
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| In agriculture, multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same space during a single growing season. |
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| 22. Economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary) |
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| work or industry undertaken for economic purposes. |
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| 23. Environmental modification (pesticides, soil erosion, desertification) |
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| The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use |
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| 24. Extensive subsistence agriculture (shifting cultivation [slash-and- burn, milpa, swidden], nomadic herding/pastoralism) |
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| characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. |
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| The economic and human development gains that could come if Cambodia's extractive |
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| A Farm Crisis is a term describing times of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes that can lead to farm bankrup |
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| The activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock. |
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| An area or building where livestock are fed or fattened up. |
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| 29. First agricultural revolution |
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| The Neolithic Revolution is the first agricultural revolution--the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement |
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| The activity of catching fish, either for food or as a sport. |
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| A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food. |
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| The science or practice of planting, managing, and caring for forests. |
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| 33. Globalized agriculture |
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| agriculture around the world |
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| A large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties. |
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| The part of the year during which rainfall and temperature allow plants to grow. |
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| 36. Hunting and gathering |
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| the act of finding your own food |
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| 37. Intensive subsistence agriculture |
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| Intensive subsistence agriculture |
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| commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area. Practiced is semi-arid or arid land, where vegetation is too sparse or the soil |
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| the growing of vegetables or flowers for market. |
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| 41. Mediterranean agriculture |
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| form agriculture that takes place along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. The sea winds provide moisture for the crops and moderate... |
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| Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. |
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| The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine |
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| Planned economy (or command economy) is an economic system in which the state directs the economy. |
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| in domestication (biology and society): Origins of domestication |
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| 46. Plantation agriculture |
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| this is when cash crops are grown on large estates; usually are found in poorer, primarily tropical, countries along with subsistence |
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| 47. Renewable/nonrenewable |
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| 48. Rural settlement (dispersed, nucleated, building material, village form) |
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| The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country. In some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas... |
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| defined cultural landscape, as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group. A combination of cultural features such as language |
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| 50. Second agricultural revolution |
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| Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between 1943 and the late |
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| the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose. |
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| Maize (corn), wheat, and rice are the most produced grains produced world wide, accounting for 87% of all grains and 43% of all food |
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| 54. Survey patterns (long lots, metes and bounds, township-and-range) |
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| the way the land is layed out |
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| The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, |
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| 56. Third agricultural revolution (mechanization, chemical farming, food manufacturing) |
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Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizer. Because of Green Revolution, |
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| 57. “Tragedy of the commons” |
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| The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and... |
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| The action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter |
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| A farm that produces vegetables for the market |
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| 60. Von Thünen, Johann Heinrich |
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| made the Von Thunen model |
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