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15 Cards in this Set
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Cash Crops
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Crops produced primarily for market, not for subsistence.
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Commercial Farming
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European plantation system uses cheap labor.
Cash crops: tea, hemp, rubber, pepper, tobacco, cocoa. |
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Green Revolution
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Uses science/tech to ↑ output.
Requires dependable water supply, fertilizer, insecticides, pesticides. |
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Intn’l Rice Research Institute (1962) & IR-8
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Developed new type of rice with shorter growth cycle.
Yields 3 crops per year. Doubles harvest. |
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Shifting Agriculture
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Slash&Burn method is wasteful.
Practiced by hill people. Soil loses fertility. Erosion. |
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Subsistence Farming
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Just enough to survive, typically little surplus.
Average farmer rarely travels. Live in small villages. Self-sufficient. |
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Cottage Industry
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Small industry where labor is often family using own equip.
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Four Dragons/Tigers
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High growth rates between 1960s-1990s. Depends on export. Asian econ. Crisis contributed to decline.
Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea. |
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Little Dragons/Tigers
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Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia
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NICs
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Newly Industrialized Countries experienced explosive econ growth.
Fueled by Japanese investors and industries seaking cheap labor & land. |
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Rapid Industrialization
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Problems: Huge movement of people from rural to cities.
Pollution. |
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Brain Drain
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Many students do not return from foreign universities.
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Colonial Education
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Limited Western-style education
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Modern Education
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Universal edu mandated by law.
High dropout rate due to: poverty; health; distance; lack of enforcement. Literacy↑; Attendance↑ |
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Traditional Education
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Varied forms: practical skills; Religious (Buddhist schools in Burma & Thailand).
Most people illiterate. |
