Vocab
Raising crops or animals primarily for direct consumption.
Subsistence agriculture
This significant advancement started the First Agricultural Revolution
The invention of agriculture
Livestock pastures or ranching is most likely to be found in this area according to von Thunen
The outermost ring, furthest from the city
Feedlots and dairying both present a significant risk to this particular local resource.
Water
This crop is likely to come from a tropical plantation
cocoa, coffee, mangos, pineapples, sugar, rubber, palm oil
Overwatering, over-fertilizing, and in general overuse of arable land can result in this degradation of the land.
Desertification
Due to the larger amounts of food produced during the Second Agricultural Revolutions, this stage of the DTM started
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Although relatively extensive, timber should be located closer to the market due to this expense.
transportation costs
This type of agriculture common in LDCs practices mono-cropping for commercial purposes.
Plantation
The Columbian Exchange refers to the diffusion of agricultural products like corn and tomatoes from this hearth
Meso-America, Andean Highlands
Moving herds between pastures seasonally
Transhumance
Food preservation and the mechanization of agriculture started this agricultural revolution
Second
Due to its use as transportation, the introduction of a river to the von Thunen model changes the arrangement from rings to this shape.
Stripes
Shifting cultivation is most likely to use multi-cropping methods because this is the primary purpose of shifting cultivation
Subsistence agriculture
This term refers to when a farmer makes preserves out of their extra fruit or cheese out of their extra milk, and can be a handy source of extra income
Value-added
The practice of consolidating smaller farms into larger farms, this change in land ownership helped to start the Industrial Revolution and Second Agricultural Revolution
The Enclosure Movement
This significant advancement of the Third Agricultural Revolution allows for longer shelf life, larger crops, and natural resistances to pests and disease
Genetically modified organisms
Along with dairying, this type of agriculture is likely to be found closely clustered around large urban areas, a practice that shows von Thunen on a larger scale.
Market gardening / horticulture
This type of agriculture is most likely to practice transhumance.
Nomadic pastorlism / pastoral nomadism
Increasing global demand for palm oil from tropical palm trees will most likely lead to this negative environmental outcome
Deforestation
A form of market gardening or horticulture, this type of agriculture grows olives, nuts, and grapes in its specific climate.
Mediterranean agriculture
The Green Revolution was largely about synthetic fertilizers and pesticides as well as this method of creating desirable traits in crops and animals.
Hybridization
The idea that land is more valuable nearer to the city, raising the cost of living there, this idea was central to the development of von Thunen's model
Bid-rent theory
Due to vast global demand and the climate it tends to be practiced in, this is the significant environmental risk of grain farming.
Desertification
In many of the least developed countries today the demand for better paying urban jobs is growing. This means that this demographic is now doing much of the subsistence farming at home.
Women