Global Agriculture
Types of agriculture in the first ring of the von Thunen model
Clearing and destruction of forests to use the land for agriculture
Deforestation
A living organism, including crops & livestock, that is produced through genetic engineering.
GMOs
Area with limited access to fresh, nutritious foods
Food dessert
A cash crop that is produced for export to other countries at the expense of crop production for local
Export commodity
The process by which once-fertile land becomes desert as a result of climate variation or human activities
Desertification
A commitment to satisfying human food and textile needs and to enhancing the quality of life for farmers and society as whole, now and in the future; it requires a balance among feeding the growing population, minimizing environmental impacts, and ensuring social justice
Sustainable agriculture
Women make up 45% of the workforce in this type of agriculture
The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for societal operation
Infrastructure
Sections of a body of water where there is very little aquatic life
Dead zones
The practice of growing fruits & vegetables on small private plots or shared community gardens within the confines of a city.
Urban farming
The number of women in subsistence and commercial agriculture worldwide is
Increasing
An arrangement between an independent farmer and an agribusiness company to produce a crop; the agribusiness provides the farmer with all the supplies needed to produce a crop in exchange for a guaranteed price & buyer
Contract farming
Farming that relies on the controlled application of water to cultivated fields
Irrigated agriculture
The cultivation & harvesting of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions.
Aquaculture
According to the UN, the situation in which all people, at all times, have physical & economic access to enough safe & nutritious food that meets their dietary needs & food preferences for an active & healthy life.
Food secrurity
Mao's Great Leap Forward (specifically, the Smash Sparrows Campaign)
One potential positive to the shrinking of the Aral Sea
More land for agriculture
People who dedicate themselves to slow-food diets & to obtaining as much of their nutrition as possible from local farmers
Locavores
How a group divides the range of tasks within a social system
Division of labor