Ag Basics
What is the difference between Subsistence and Commercial Agriculture?
Subsistence is for yourself or family, commercial is for profit.
Land use model based on distance from the market.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
Slash and burn farming with rotation of fields.
What is Shifting Cultivation?
The domestication of plants and animals.
What is the 1st Agricultural Revolution?
Degradation of land into desert-like conditions.
What is Desertification?
an agricultural product grown primarily for sale and profit, rather than for the farmer's personal consumption (subsistence).
What is a cash crop?
Farming that is closest to the market in the Von Thunen Model.
Dairying and Intensive Farming
Raising livestock while moving across land.
What is Pastoral Nomadism?
Introduction of high-yield seeds , fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation.
What is the 3rd (Green) Revolution?
an agricultural practice of growing the same, single crop species on the same land year after year without crop rotation
What is monocropping?
a form of farming that maximizes output per unit of land through high inputs of labor, capital (machinery/fertilizer), or both
What is intensive agriculture?
The closer to the market, the higer the land value.
What is Bid Rent Theory?
Growing crops and livestock together.
mixed Crop and livestock farming
Improvements in farming techniques, mechanization, and increased productivity.
What is the 2nd Agricultural Revolution?
How does monocropping increase vulnerability in agricultural systems?
replacing biodiversity with genetic uniformity, creating a single "all-the-eggs-in-one-basket" system.
an agricultural production system using small inputs of labor, capital, and machinery relative to the large land area being cultivated or grazed
What is extensive agriculture?
Lower transportation costs and less perishability explains why this type of agriculture is the farthest from the market.
Ranching & Livestock raising
Olives, Grapes and citrus fruits (specialty crops)
What is Mediterranean Agriculture?
If someone believes that human ingenuity will allow populations to keep pace with their food supplies they are a?
What is a anti-Malthusian or Cornucopian
Key characteristics of this kind of agriculture include restoring soil health, conserving water, biodiversity, using renewable energy, and ensuring fair, long-term economic viability for farmers
What is sustainable agriculture
A type of commercial agriculture in developing/subtropical regions, focusing on large scale, intensive farming practices.
What is Plantation Agriculture?
What is a limitation of the Von Thunen Model?
the assumption of a single, isolated market on a flat, uniform landscape, failing to account for modern technology, varied terrain, global supply chains, and multiple economic centers (O'Connell decides)
Two or more crops planted simultaneously in the same field during a single growing season.
What is Intercropping?
Explain one major impact of the agricultural revolutions.
the shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to sedentary, settled communities. (O'Connell Decides)
A farmer switches from subsistence farming to commercial cash crop production. Identify ONE environmental OR economic consequence.
O'Connell decides.