General Ag
The purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival.
What is agriculture?
Farmers expend a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land.
What is intensive agriculture?
Plants or livestock thats genetic makeup has been altered for agricultural needs.
What are genetically modified organisms? (GMOs)
Protecting farmers ability to earn a living by paying above market prices when certain environmental or labor standards are met.
What is fair trade?
Areas where there is no access to healthy and nutritious foods.
What are food deserts?
Growing crops and raising livestock for profit.
What is commercial agriculture?
The cultivation of one or two crops which are rotated seasonally.
What is mono cropping?
Using a variety of cutting edge technology to apply inputs like water or fertilizer with great accuracy.
What is precision agriculture?
A crop that is produced for its commercial value.
What is a cash crop?
Disruption of a household's food intake or eating patters because of poor access to food.
What is food insecurity?
The combination of temperature, precipitation, and topography produces these.
What are climate regions?
A type of shifting cultivation that involves cutting down trees and brush and then burning the area to produce nutrient rich soil.
What is slash and burn?
Type of fish farming that uses less space and avoids depletion of natural fisheries.
What is aquaculture?
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular import or export.
What are tariffs?
This happens to approximately 25% of the world's food calories before they are consumed due to storage, transportation, or other issues.
What is loss or waste?
Growing and raising a diverse range of crops and livestock for consumption by the farmer and their family.
What is subsistence agriculture?
Involves large scale commercial farming of one type of crop grown for markets that are often far from the place where they are grown.
What is plantation agriculture?
The science of altering living organisms, often through genetic manipulation, to create New products for specific purposes, such as pest resistant crops.
What is biotechnology?
Government provided payments to farmers originally started during the Great Depression.
What are farm subsidies?
Shifting of population from cities to surrounding areas which has resulted in loss of agricultural lands.
What is suburbanization?
Idea that the value of the land determines how a farmer will use the land.
What is bid-rent theory?
Moving animals seasonally to allow the best grazing.
What is nomadic herding or pastoral nomadism?
The variety and variability of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture.
What is agricultural biodiversity?
Complex network that connects places of production with distribution to consumers.
What is a commodity chain?
A form of severe soil degradation creating arid lands.
What is desertification?