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27 Cards in this Set
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Agribusiness |
Growing crops to sell |
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Neolithic Revolution |
Shifting from hunting/gathering to domestication of plants/animals |
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Plantation |
Foreign owned commercial agriculture in LDCs |
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2nd Agricultural Revolution? |
Shifting from subsistence to commercial agriculture |
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Green Revolution? |
Introduction of subsistence farming to LDCs to grow more food |
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Commercial Agriculture? |
Farmers growing their crops to sell |
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Ranching? |
Raising livestock for meat, hides, or hair through grazing on extensive, marginal land |
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Dairying? |
Raising livestock for the purpose of milk and similar products |
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Commercial grain? |
Using extensive land to grow grains, usually maize or rice, sometimes wheat |
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Mixed crop and Livestock Farming? |
Extensive land for growing grain, most of which is fed to the cattle |
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Mediterranean? |
Diverse agriculture requiring specific environmental factors for crops to grow |
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Specialty crop? |
Crops specifically grown for climate, culture, and market demand |
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GMO? |
Genetically modified organisms, designed to grow crops faster, bigger, and better; may affect public health in the future, ultimately unknown |
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Metes and Bounds? |
Clustered, random land survey system that can change easily |
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Long Lot? |
French and Spanish land survey system where all have equal access to water |
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US Public Land Survey? |
A land survey system that involves townships and sections numbered from axes |
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Luxury crops? |
Crops found on many plantations: tea, coffee, cacao |
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Milkshed? |
Area near enough to a market (city) to transport milk w/o spoilage |
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Organic Agriculture? |
Growing crops w/o the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs |
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Subsistence Agriculture? |
A system of agriculture with constraint on livestock and farmable crops; LDCs usually, consumed by farmer else sold to market |
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Extensive Subsistence Agriculture? |
Subsistence Agriculture primarily for large areas of land and low labor input per unit of land |
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Aquaculture? |
Harvesting of fish, done by either wild fishing or farming |
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Commodity Stream? |
Process by which an item goes from raw material to market, increases with expertise and efficiency |
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Crop rotation? |
Changing crops to save soil and fallow to help grow healthier crops |
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Desertification? |
Semiarid land degradation from overuse |
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Food processing/manufacturing? |
Making new food products from grown foods to add value by reducing work in the home kitchen |
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Food security? |
Physical, social, and economic healthy food access |
