Basics
This agricultural shift moved farming from small family farms to large industrial agribusinesses in the late 1950s–1960s.
What is the Green Revolution?
The first agricultural revolution transitioned humans from hunting-gathering to this practice.
What is domestication
What 2 machine are commonly used to harvest crops efficiently?
Tractors and combines
HYV crops increased food stability in these 3 countries
India, Pakistan, and Mexico
Synthetic fertilizers primarily contain these three nutrients.
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium
These foundations helped fund and promote the Green Revolution globally.
What are the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations?
This revolution dramatically increased total food production worldwide.
What is the Third Agricultural Revolution
Mention the benefit and cost of Mechanization
Increased greenhouse gasses and greater crop yields
Plants are modified to achieve desirable traits through these 2 methods
Hybridization and genetic engineering
What is a consequence of over-irrigation
Reduced ground water
This American agronomist developed high-yield wheat varieties and won the Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Norman Borlaug
This ancient period marks the beginning of agriculture.
The Neolithic Age
Provide 2 negative effects of Mechanization on soil
Reduced porosity, and more vulnerable to erosion
Provide an example of a GMO draw back
Reduced genetic diversity, allowing a disease to wipe out a whole yield
DDT: intented to kill mosquitoes, thinned eggshells