Types of Agriculture
Type of agriculture that is most common in periphery states and often is in the form of shifting cultivation.
What is subsistence Agriculture?
The concept that explains how the price of land decreases as the distance from a city's central business district (CBD) increases.
What is the bid rent theory?
The cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food.
What is aquaculture?
Agricultural revolution associated with the domestication of plants and animals.
What is the 1st Agricultural Revolution?
The cost advantage a company gains by increasing its production volume, resulting in a decrease in the average cost per unit produced.
What is economy of scale?
A type of commercial farming where large quantities of fruits/vegetables are grown specifically for shipment to distant markets.
What is truck farming?
Agricultural activity that would be found in the first ring of Von Thunen's model due to its high perishability.
What is market gardening or dairy farming?
Rural survey method that is typically a rectangular land area with each land parcel having access to a central transportation route like a river or road.
What is the long lot system?
Term that refers to agricultural hearths developing simultaneously during the 1st Agricultural Revolution.
What is independent invention?
Livestock such as pigs or cows are densely packed on to smaller areas (compared to ranching/grazing) where they are fed high grain diets and hormones to speed up the development and growth process.
What are feedlots or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)?
Agriculture common is areas with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters and often contains crops such as grapes, olives, almonds, figs, citrus, fruits, and dates.
What is Mediterranean Agriculture?
Ring of Von Thunen's model in which EXTENSIVE grain farming is found.
What is the third ring of Von Thunen's model?
Farming practices that aim to maintain long-term productivity of land by minimizing environmental damage, typically achieved through methods like crop rotation, reduced pesticide and fertilizer use, and practices that preserve soil health.
What are sustainable agricultural practices?
Revolution characterized by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and GMOs.
What is the 3rd Agricultural Revolution?
It's a form of government support to encourage certain types of farming by providing financial assistance to producers.
What is an agricultural subsidy?
An example of extensive agriculture.
What is shifting cultivation/slash and burn, ranching, nomadic herding, or grain farming.
Forestry is found in the 2nd ring of Von Thunen's model so it is close enough to the market to keep __________ low.
What is transportation costs?
A method of agriculture that uses natural processes and seeds instead of synthetic chemicals or GMOs; becoming more popular as people are concerned about the environmental impact of large-scale agriculture.
What is organic agriculture?
The 2nd Agricultural revolution is characterized by the enclosure movement and _______.
What is crop rotation, new machinery, new transportation (RR), commercial farming, increased farm size, natural fertilizers, population boom, benefits of Industrial Revolution, etc.
The agricultural practice of growing the same crop on the same land year after year; common in commercial agriculture and on plantations.
What is monocropping/monoculture?
Type of agriculture that often produces luxury crops and is a legacy of the colonial era.
What is Plantation agriculture?
The THREE factors that land use is based on in Von Thunen's model.
What is distance to market, transportation costs, and perishability of crop?
Rural settlement pattern where homes are located close together, forming a central village with farmland surrounding it; this pattern is prevalent in many parts of Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
What is clustered (nucleated)?
High yield strains of grain crops were introduced to periphery/semi-periphery areas such as Mexico, India, and Indonesia.
What is the Green Revolution?
A clothing company owning its own cotton farms and textile mills to produce fabric for their clothing line.
What is an example of vertical integration?