Farming
Provision of food for your own family or the local community
What is subsistence farming?
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A highly industrialized country
What is an MDC?
The process or period of gathering in crops
What is harvesting?
Uses land more intensively with high levels of input and output per unit area
What is intensive farming?
‘bad’ nutrition, the result of a diet that is unbalanced
What is malnutrition?
A country consisting of low to moderate industrialization
What is an LCD?
The growing of different crops in succession on a piece of land to avoid exhausting the soil and to control weeds, pests, and diseases
What is crop rotation?
Growing crops for the market, not to eat yourself
What is cash cropping?
Raising animals, usually on grass and on land that is not suitable for crops
What is pastoral farming?
More likely to rely on large-scale, commercial agriculture and imports to feed populations.
What is an MDC?
Government policies, regulations, food corporations, NGOS
What are helpful ways to monitoring and control our food?
Uses more land with a lower density of stocking or planting and lower inputs and outputs
What is extensive farming?
Growing crops on good soils to eat directly or to feed to animals
What is arable farming?
More likely to rely on subsistence farming to feed local population (may engage in commercial farming for export).
What is an LDC?
Climate, Cultural & Religious, Political, Socio-economic
What are factors that determine what we grow and eat (our farming)?
Large, profit-making scale, with high inputs of energy, technology and capital to maximize yield
What is commercial farming?
The local ecological conditions determine what will grow where on Earth.
What is climate?
China
What is an example of an LDC?
Maximize yield, Reduce food waste, Monitoring and control, Changing attitudes towards food (education)
What are methods to increase sustainability of food supplies?