Corporations
This is created when the processes of gathering to distribution and everything in between are linked together.
What is a commodity chain?
GMO is short for this, which is any plant creature that has been "altered" so that they may be of more use to humans.
Many make their living off of this new type of agriculture, which focuses on cultivating fish and other types of marine life.
What is aquaculture?
What is salinization?
This practice falls under both Commercial and Subsistence Agriculture. It is typically based in MDCs, while the ones who actually do the work are in LDCs. This is done to avoid high labor costs.
What is Plantation Agriculture?
When a corporation controls many aspects of a commodity chain, this type of integration is said to occur.
What is Vertical Integration?
The flattening out of mountainous or otherwise unstable land in order to conserve nutrients is known as this.
What is terracing?
This worldwide body is designed to monitor commerce between countries. It has been particularly useful in diffusing agriculture across the world.
What is the WTO? (World Trade Organization)
When an area is completely drained of all of its natural nutrients, this occurs. For a modern example, see Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is desertification?
When a corporation delegates many aspects of a commodity chain out to different providers, this type of integration is said to occur.
What is Horizontal Integration?
This is the term for the harnessing or altering of water for the purpose of increasing an area's fertility.
This principle says that more developed countries should purchase food from less developed countries in order to stimulate their economies and keep the global trade system running.
What is Fair Trade?
These areas exist around cities where there is little-to-no access to nutritious and organic food. Their food access is instead relegated to convenience stores and unhealthy alternative restaurants.
What are food deserts?
These series of acts, passed by governments during the industrial revolution, served only to help the establishment corporations in charge of agriculture. They completely shut down many citizen farms.
When a specific environment is edited by humans for the purpose of agriculture, it is said to become this.
What is an Agroecosystem?
This expensive type of agriculture focuses on using data, analytics, and technology to maximize yields and productivity as much as possible.
What is precision agriculture?
Many modern agricultural practices can lead to a decrease in this: The make-up of organisms in a specific ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Corporate intervention led to the creation of this type of seed, when is specifically designed to make a plant sterile and unable to reproduce.
What is a terminator seed?
These artificial bodies of water can provide many benefits, but have also been criticised due to their tendency to block nearby rivers.
What are reservoirs?
CSA is short for this, a large series of local networks that advocate for greater food choice and more access to organic produce within their regions.
What is Community Supported Agriculture?
This controversial practice, common in shifting cultivation, is an efficient way to clear out land, but it also can lead to heavy deforestation due to its hot methods.
What is Slash & Burn?