Agriculture I
The science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
What is agriculture?
When crops and animals are produced to sell at market for a profit
What is Commercial Farming?
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
What is Industrialization?
a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person.
What are Human Rights?
The practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons.
What is Crop Rotation?
Does not use chemical fertilizers or feed additives for livestock.
What is Organic Farming?
collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale
A milestone document in the history of Human Rights. The document that recorded something.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Extreme scarcity of food.
What is Famine?
An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food
What is a Food Desert?
a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
What is a consumer?
the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
What is Ethnicity?
Great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century.
What is the Green Revolution?
Farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale
What is Subsistence Farming?
materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are Natural Resources?
a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa.
What was Apartheid?
Organism whose genome has been engineered in the laboratory in order to favor the expression of desired physiological traits or the generation of desired biological products.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
Agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology.
What is Agribusiness?
machine using steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat.
What is a Steam Engine?
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
What is Genocide?