Types of Agriculture
Every site practicing this form of agriculture borders a sea. Olives and grapes are two of the most important cash crops.
What is Mediterranean Agriculture.
GMOs, fighting world hunger, and increased crop yields are associated with this revolution.
What is the Green Revolution or the Third Agricultural Revolution?
Has been found to be twice as effective in reducing poverty.
What is growth in the agricultural sector?
The innermost ring of the model.
What is market gardening and dairying?
The direction and frequency of migration depended on the movement of game and the seasonal growth of plants.
What is hunting and gathering?
The commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area that is well suited for semiarid or arid land.
What is Livestock Ranching?
This would increase the amount of farmers in the agricultural sector and better help the world food supply.
What is increased gender equity?
Mostly used in animal feed and other products such as tooth paste.
What is corn?
DAILY DOUBLE!!--In the United States most farmers are engaged in this type of agriculture.
What is commercial agriculture?
These are the three main issues in countries with severe gender inequalities.
What are insufficient national food supply, high poverty, and low nutrition?
The third ring in the model.
What are grain crops?
Deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
What is agriculture?
This is the approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
What is organic farming?
Countered Malthus by saying that population growth would stimulate agriculture. She also brought up the importance of women as producers.
Who is Ester Boserup?
Name 4 things that corn is used for that do not involve food or edible products.
1. Oil industry
2. Cars
3. Plastics
4. Medical research
______ increased the productivity of modern farming by increasing plants’ drought resistance and resistance to pests
What is Genetic engineering?
Four of the most critical areas where women face more significant barriers than men.
What are Access to land, Access to credit, Access to agricultural inputs, and Access to education/training.
The primary reasons why each type of activity is in its place in the model.
What is the cost of transportation and land?
DAILY DOUBLE!!--Farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris.
What is Shifting Cultivation?