Intensive Agriculture
This type of intensive agricultural practice involves the cultivation of crops in multiple, successive seasons without allowing the soil to fallow.
What is double cropping?
This type of agriculture involves the intensive production of high-value crops such as fruits, vegetables, and flowers, often for local markets or specialty markets.
What is market gardening?
This term describes a type of agriculture practiced in developing countries, characterized by small-scale, subsistence farming for local consumption.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This economic concept, commonly associated with agriculture, refers to the difference between the selling price of a product and the cost of producing it.
What is profit margin?
In this type of rural settlement pattern, houses and buildings are clustered closely together, often forming a tight-knit community, with agricultural fields surrounding the settlement.
What is nucleated settlement?
Developed in ancient Mesopotamia, this intensive agricultural practice involves the construction of elevated beds to optimize water usage in arid regions.
What are terraced fields?
Market gardeners often utilize this agricultural practice, which involves alternating the types of crops grown in a particular field from season to season to maintain soil fertility and reduce pest infestations.
What is crop rotation?
The Neolithic Revolution marked a significant shift in human history with the transition from hunting and gathering to this type of settled agricultural lifestyle.
What is sedentary agriculture?
In agricultural economics, this term describes a market structure in which a few large firms dominate the industry, often leading to limited competition and significant market power.
What is an oligopoly?
This term refers to the practice of concentrating agricultural production on the most fertile and productive land, often resulting in distinct patterns of land use and settlement.
What is agglomeration?
This form of intensive agriculture involves the cultivation of crops on vertical surfaces, commonly found in densely populated areas with limited arable land.
What is vertical farming?
Originating in colonial times, this system of agriculture involves large-scale production of a single crop, typically in tropical or subtropical regions, often utilizing forced labor.
What is plantation agriculture?
This branch of geography focuses on the spatial patterns and processes of agricultural production, distribution, and land use.
What is agricultural geography?
Governments often provide these financial incentives to agricultural producers to support their income, stabilize prices, and encourage production of certain crops.
What are agricultural subsidies?
This type of rural settlement pattern features a linear arrangement of houses and buildings along a transportation route, such as a road, river, or railway.
What is linear settlement?
The intensive agricultural practice of monoculture is associated with an increased risk of this environmental phenomenon, which occurs when pests rapidly adapt to resist pesticides.
What is pesticide resistance?
Plantation agriculture is primarily focused on the cultivation of these types of crops, which are grown for sale in national or international markets rather than for subsistence.
What are cash crops?
This agricultural revolution, occurring in the 18th century in Britain, saw significant advancements in farming techniques, such as crop rotation, enclosure systems, and the use of new machinery, leading to increased agricultural productivity and urbanization.
What is the 2nd Agricultural Revolution?
This economic process has led to increased interconnectedness and interdependence among agricultural markets worldwide, resulting in the globalization of food production and distribution.
What is globalization?
This survey system, commonly used in the United States, divides land into a grid of six-mile-square units called townships, further subdivided into one-mile-square sections using north-south and east-west lines.
What is the Township and Range system?
This country is renowned for its intensive agricultural practices, particularly the use of high-yield rice varieties and sophisticated irrigation systems like the paddy field.
What is Japan?
Plantation agriculture played a significant role in the economy of this region during the colonial era, particularly with crops such as sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
What are the Caribbean islands?
This term refers to the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food for all individuals within a population, ensuring they have access to nutritionally adequate and culturally appropriate food.
What is food security?
Despite criticisms, CAFOs are favored by agribusinesses for their ability to achieve economies of scale. This term refers to the cost advantages that CAFOs can achieve by producing large quantities of animals or crops at a lower average cost per unit.
What is economies of scale?
This survey system, utilized in areas with French or Spanish colonial heritage, divides land into narrow strips stretching from a water source, such as a river or coastline, with each strip having access to the water.
What is the Long Lot system?