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Origins of Agriculture
Commercial Ag
Subsistence Ag
Why Do Farmers Face Challenges
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The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of crops and the domestication of animals
What is agriculture
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the form of commercial farming that uses crop rotation
What is mixed crop and livestock
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form of agriculture found in drylands
What is pastoral nomadism
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why do farmers in MDCs face problems? why fo farmers in LDCs face problems?
What is Commercial farmers produce a surplus of food Subsistence farmers barely produce enough food to survive
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most undernourished country
What is India
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Life before the invention of agriculture
What is hunting and gathering
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20% of workers in the US work in _____________
What is agribusiness
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form that uses double cropping
What is intensive subsistence wet rice dominant
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3 main reasons why farmers in LDCs have trouble producing enough
What is encouragement to export, rapid pop growth, drug crops
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Consumption of food varies around the world, both in total amount and source of nutrients, for two reasons.
What is 1. Level of development 2. Physical conditions
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the hearth of sorghum, yams, millet, and rice
What is Sub Saharan Africa
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farming found in the southeastern US
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming
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large commercial farming that specializes in one of two crops
What is plantation
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The US government has three policies that supposed to address the problem of excess productive capacity:
What is 1.Farmers are encouraged to avoid producing crops that are in excess supply and leave fields fallow. 2. Subsidies 3.The government pays farmers when certain commodity prices are low. The government buys surplus production and sells or donates it
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the three leading sources of energy
What is corn, wheat, rice
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the difference in machinery between commercial and subsistence farming using a specific example
What is commercial- fertilizers, herbicides, chemicals, GPS, satellite imagery, heavy machinery such as tractors, combines etc.. subsistence-hand tools, and animal power
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two main challenges for dairy farmers
What is winter feed, labor intensive
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this form takes place where summer precipitation is too low and winters are too harsh
What is intensive subsistence wet rice not dominant
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4 strategies to increase food supply
What is 1. Increasing exports from countries with surpluses 2. Expanding the land area used for agriculture 3. Expanded fishing 4. Increasing the productivity of land now used for agriculture
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the "miracle" of the 1970s and 80s is known as the _______________ because of the invention of ____________ and ____________
What is green revolution; GMOs, fertilizers
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the four major differences between subsistence and commercial agriculture
What is 1. purpose of farming, 2. use of machinery, 3. percentage of farmers in labor force, 4. farm size
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the form that uses transhumance
What is Mediterranean
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the four steps to cultivating wet rice
What is field preparation, flooding, transplanting, and havesting
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The two types of farming taking place in the first ring of Von Thunen's model and the type farming taking place in the fourth ring
What is 1- dairy/horticulture; 4-animal grazing
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three practices of sustainable farming
What is sensitive land management, limited use of chemicals, integrated crop and livestock