Key Terms
Any fruit, vegetable, or grain harvested to feed people.
Food Crop
A highly specialized type of farming that takes place in with very hilly landscapes or narrow strips of land along a coast.
Mediterranean farming
The number one produced livestock species in the world.
Poultry
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The most important element to manage when thinking about a bountiful harvest.
soil
A food that makes up a dominant part of a population's diet.
Staple Crop
Form of agriculture in which an area of land is cleared of vegetation, cultivated for a few years, and later abandoned for a new area until its nutrients have been naturally restored.
Shifting cultivation
The number two produced livestock species in the world.
Swine
One crop produced in South America.
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The year that the Global population is projected to reach 9 billion people.
2050
A specialized plant stem that stores excess food for the plant.
tuber
The continual herding of livestock to areas where there is pasture available.
Pastoral Nomadism
The number three most produced species in the world.
Cattle
One crop produced in Central Africa.
Cassava or plantains
The amount or percentage of food thrown out and wasted.
1/4 or 25%
Fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops (including floriculture)
Specialty crops
A type of farming that involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock on the same land or farm.
Mixed crop and livestock farming
Two other common livestock species raised for food or milk products.
Goats and sheep
The major crop of Asia.
Rice
A way to safely increase yields of crops and livestock with less land.
Increasing genetic efficiency
an area of biology that uses living systems and organisms to develop or make products.
biotechnology
A type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land.
Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
Total number of tons of meat produced globally every year.
over 320 million
A crop produced largely throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
potatoes
The largest problem for agriculturists today!
feeding the world or communication with the consumer