Agriculture/History of Agriculture
Taming world animals for human benefit
What is Animal Domestication?
Agriculture that involves greater input of capitol and labor relative to the amount of land being used.
What is Intensive Farming?
The process that describes how our food moves from farms to us.
What is the Food Chain?
Model used to help explain importance of distance to nearest market in choice of crops on commercial farms.
What is Von Thunen's model?
The diffusion of plants, people, animals, ideas, tech, and disease between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The percent of women that make up the global agricultural work force
50%
Agriculture that uses fewer input of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of land being used. Usually occurs when there is not much land.
What is extensive farming?
A way of farming in which only one crop is planted time after time. This is used by many large corporations to speed up production and yield in order to satisfy the food chain.
What is monoculture?
This principle says that as you go further out from an urban area or city, land gets cheaper and as you get closer to an urban area land gets more expensive.
What is the Bid-Rent Curve?
Type of agriculture which is done in a way that protects the environment, the health of people, and the animals.
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
The use of Biotechnology and genetic engineering to further increase yield of products or crops.
Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food processing industry. Owned by large transnational corporations.
What is Agribusiness?
This is a chain which links production with consumption of agricultural products. It allows consumers to see al aspects of a commodity's production. Also used by Agribusiness.
What is a commodity chain?
This concentric ring usually has highly perishable foods such as milk and fruits.
What is the 1st ring?
What is Industrialized Farming?
The shift from hunting and gathering to societies that planted crops and raised animals for food. Humans became much more sedentary, and this occured in the Fertile Crescent, Indus River Valley, Southeast Asia, and Central America.
What is the 1st Agricultural Revolution?
Origins of both vegetative and seed agriculture. Mapped out by Carl Sauer. These places were Central America, Northwestern South America, Westen Africa, and Southeast Asia.
What are the Agricultural Hearths?
What is Production?
This ring usually has forestry or wood.
What is the 2nd concentric ring?
Farming that focuses on producing agriculture products for sale in the market rather than for one's own subsistence.
What is commercial farming?
This happened during the Industrial Revolution and used the technology from the industrial revolution in order to increase production, distribution, and products. Allowed fields do grow massively, but used the same amount of labor. Also allowed massive population growth.
What is the 2nd Agricultural Revolution?
The cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish and algae which is used to make profit or create value.
What is Aquaculture?
The part of the food chain in which the commodity is allocated to stores and places where people can buy them.
What is Distribution?
These three main factors are taken into account in Von Thunen's model in order to determine where each commodity goes.
What are perishability, cost of transportation, and cost of land?
Farming done to provide for one's family and meet the needs of their household.
What is subsistence agriculture?