Intro to Agriculture
The production of goods and crops with the intent to sell to a large/global market
Commercial Agriculture
What chili pepper is so hot it could kill you?
Dragon's Breath Chili Pepper
50
This city can hold the world's population
Los Angeles
What is the important cost associated with the von thunen model
Transportation cost
The movement of water sources in order to grow crops.
Irrigation
What causes high population early on in the Ganges and Nile Valley?
Irrigation of the Nile River
Decade the Green Revolution began
1950's
Planting 2 crops such as strawberries and watermelons is called what?
Intercropping
What technology will allow farmers to transport beef over long distances to global markets?
Refrigerated Shipping containers
What 2 locations in the world can coca-cola not be bought?
North-Korea and Cuba
Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East
Origins of plant domestication
The Green Revolution requires access to what to be successful
Technology and resources (high yield seeds)
Production of crops for personal consumption is what type of agriculture?
Subsistence agriculture
Why have small family farms been replaced with large corporations in the United States
Agribusiness farms have resources and technology
American Midwest has rectilinear shapes.
Federal Survey system
Domesticated corn
174 countries would sign this agreement in one day. The largest amount of countries to ever sign a single agreement in one day.
The Paris agreement on Climate Change
This theory would create cone-like urban planning because of the price of land
Bid-rent theory
Non-wage workers on small subsistence farms
Role of women in developing countries
As global temperatures rise what impact will that have on climates?
Climates will shift.
Contagious diffusion, then Relocation diffusion
India would greatly expand their ability to provide for their people and begin commercial agriculture between 1950-1990 because of what?
Technological advancements such as creating hybrid seeds.
This area is where we see subsistence farming more so than other regions?
Amazon - Sub-Sahara Africa
Economic and political relationships to organize food production from the beginning to the consumption of the product is called what?
Agribusiness