Vocab
Commercial agricul- ture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
What is Agribusiness?
This person was an estate owner in North Germany?
Who was Von Thunen?
1. Farmers clear land for planting (slash-and-burn)
2. Farmers grow crops for only a few years and then leave it fallow (with nothing planted) for many years so that soil can recover.
What are the two distinctive features of shifting cultivation?
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
What was the agricultural revolution?
The most distinctive characteristic of this type of farming is the integration of livestock and crops.
What is mixed crop and livestock farming?
A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
What is intensive subsistence?
If Von Thunen's model was applied at this scale, farmers would not grow highly perishable and bulky products.
What is 'at a global scale'?
25%.
Because of this, agricultural productivity at a global scale has increased faster.
What was the Green Revolution?
Advancements in modes of transportation for this type of farming have increased the radius of milk sheds to 300 miles,
What is dairy farming?
The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
What is agriculture?
These people use von Thunen's model to help explain the importance of proximity to market in the choice of crops on commercial farms.
Who are geographers?
Less than 5%
What percent of people work shifting cultivation?
Farmers dont have tractors, they need irrigation, pumps and other machinery to effectively use these seeds.
What are specific problems that farmers in LDCs have which might prevent them from taking full advantage of the green revolution?
Labor costs for this type of farming are kept down by hiring migrant farm workers.
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming?
The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
What is horticulture?
1. Increasing exports from countries with surpluses
2. Expanding the land area used for agriculture
3. expanding fishing
4. increasing the productivity of land now used for agriculture.
What are four strategies being employed to distribute food to everyone in the world?
-Most environmentally sound approach in tropics
-helps prevent global warming
What are the pros of shifting cultivation?
This country's early domesticated animals were cattle, goats, pigs, sheep and dogs.
What is Southwest Asia?
The characteristics of a typical *Blank* farm are that its heavily mechanized, its farms are in areal extent and its oriented to consumer preferences.
What is a typical *grain* farm?
Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, prima- rily because of human actions like exces- sive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
What is desertification?
Can be scaled up to national and global markets.
What is von Thunens model?
-It's inefficient
-It's for a small population only.
What are the cons of shifting cultivation?
This specific revolution has secondary effects that included endemic diseases, famine and expansionism.
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
Northeast United States, Southeast Canada and Northwest Europe.
Where does dairy farming happen?