Intro to Agriculture
The average pattern of weather, usually over a 30-year period, for a particular region
What is climate?
Taming an organism to be used by people.
What is domestication?
A model used to understand the distribution and intensity of agriculture in relation to transportation costs and the market
What is the von Thunen Model?
Clearing and destruction of forests to clear land for agriculture use
What is deforestation?
In many subsistence farming systems, this gender is primarily responsible for food production and gathering
Who are women?
Food production mainly for consumption by the farming family and local community
What is subsistence agriculture?
A major criticism of the Green Revolution is that it widened the gap between these two types of countries
What are developing and developed countries?
Theory which describes how cost of real estate is inversely proportional to distance from the Central Business District
What is the Bid-Rent theory?
Agribusinesses, organized at the global scale, that includes all elements of growing, harvesting, processing, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food for people
What is the global supply chain?
Access to healthy, nutritious food at all times
What is food security?
A crop cultivation and livestock rearing system that requires little hired labor or monetary investment to successfully raise crops and animals
What is extensive agriculture?
Technologies used to keep food fresh at every stage of transportation
What is a cool chain?
A unit-block survey system whose basic unit is a rectangle, typically 10 times longer than it is wide
What is a long-lot surveying method?
An area with little access to healthy, nutritious foods.
What is a food desert?
This system, where wealthy landowners or corporations control large tracts of land, often leads to inequality in agricultural production
What is plantation agriculture?
The arrangement of shapes on Earth’s surface (mountains, plateaus, plains, hills, and valleys)
What is topography?
A group of synthetic substances that assist in growing crops faster and killing insects and weeds
What are agrichemicals?
A way of raising livestock within a very small area to reduce costs of operation
What is a concentrated animal feeding operation?
This practice is responsible for shrinking bodies of freshwater and contributing to chemical runoff
What is large-scale irrigation?
Gender roles in agriculture are influenced by this factor, which varies based on social, political, and economic development levels
What are cultural norms?
Shifting cultivation generally takes place in this climatic region
What is a tropical (wet & dry) region?
A machine for planting seeds in a row
What is a seed drill?
This sector of the von Thunen Model is placed on the outer edge of the model due to its cheap land price
What is the ranching sector?
The process of draining land inundated with either fresh water or salt water to increase areas for agricultural production
What is water control land reclamation?
A direct-to-consumer marketing arrangement in which farmers are guaranteed buyers for their produce at guaranteed prices and consumers receive fresh food directly from the producers
What is community-supported agriculture?