Geographic Origins
Coffee and sorghum are two of the items first cultivated in this region.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
These crops tend to be found in Mediterranean or Northern California coastal areas where the nearby sea adds moisture to hot, dry summers and warmth to winters.
What are olive trees and grapes?
These are two of the main hearths of agriculture.
What are China, India, Mesopotamia, Central/South America?
The expansion of this in 2016 impacted the cost of food transportation, changed shipping routes, and shifted the desirability of different end markets.
What is the Panama Canal?
When this brought technological innovations to developed regions, freed people left rural areas to pursue work in non-agricultural sectors.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
Horses were originally domesticated on this continent.
What is Asia?
Shifting cultivation can often be practiced in tropical regions because these two factors exist.
What are warm temperatures and plenty of precipitation?
Site factors (soil, precipitation, elevation, etc) Human factors (government policies, local food preferences) are two factors that this person did not consider in making his model.
Who is Von Thunen?
True or False: A city with a nearby market, available electricity, available water, low transportation costs, and medium labor costs would be an ideal loaction for a food-processing plant.
What is true.
The Nobel Peace prize was awared to Norman Borlaug due to his work during this time period that helped improve wheat yeild to feed a growing world population.
What is the green revolution?
Rice farming alters the terrain with terraces or low-lying paddies, also known as sawahs, in these two areas.
What are India and Asia?
This invention can improve crop yield in arid places but has sparked debate over due to possible depletion of water supplies and erosion.
What are irrigation systems?
This US-run global program aims to empower women farmers in order to help women in more rural areas take care of themselves and their children or other dependents.
What is "Feed the Future"?
Due to the rise of this, corporations have a greater role in the food supply chain, from inputs and distribution.
What is agribusiness?
While this type of agriculture can be beneficial, it must be used responsibly and in connection with other agricultural practice so as not to create land degredation.
What is slash-and-burn?
This is traditionally thought to be the hearth of potatoes and peppers.
What is Latin America/Central America?
This type of subsistence agriculture is common in dry climates where planting crops os impossible.
What is pastoral nomadism?
In developing countries, these people are leaving farms in search of work in cities or even agribusiness.
What are men?
Although fish production has increased greatly due to this, fish still remain a small portion of the global diet.
What is aquaculture?
"Traditional breeding cannot improve yields fast enough to feed a population predicted to increase by an average of 68 million people every year" is an argument for the use of this in food production.
What is biotechnology?
Commercial agriculture is typically found in these.
What are more developed countries(MDCs)?
Because Georgia has a relatively warm climate, the agriculture practiced here consists of these two elements.
What are mixed crop and livestock?
This form of agriculture reduces erosion, water runoff, and soil degredation.
What is no tillage or ridge tillage?
A South American farmer who lives where there is varied vegetation, semiarid climate, and long distance from the nearest city might choose to raise this instead of sheep because they are more physically adapted to that type of region.
What are goats?
This type of farming prohibits or restricts the use of synthetic substances such as herbicides, pesticides, or growth hormones.
What is organic agriculture?