Unit 5 Agricultural and Rural Land Use

The first list of Unit 5

Agrarian

People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest.

Agribusiness

Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.

Agricultural Industrialization

The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors.

Agricultural landscape

The land that we farm on and what we choose to put on our fields.

Agricultural Origins

Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for their own use. Carl Sauer points out vegetative planting and seed agriculture as the original forms. He also points out that vegetative planting likely was originated in SE Asia and seed agriculture originated in W. India, N. China and Ethiopia.

Agriculture

The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain.

Animal Domestication

is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.

Aquaculture

The cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food.

Bio Revolution

is the rapid transformation, or evolution, into post humanism.

Biotechnology

Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products like pest resistant crops.

Commercial Agriculture (intensive, extensive)

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

Core

The areas in the world that include MDCs (More Developed Countries).

Periphery

the area of the world that contains the LDCs (Less Developed Countries).

Crop Rotation

is the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot of land to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil, and combat pest and weed pressure.

Cultivation regions

Regions were there is agricultural activity

Dairying

The “farming” and sale/distribution of milk and milk products.

Debt-for-nature swap

When agencies such as the World Bank make a deal with third world countries that they will cancel their debt if the country will set aside a certain amount of their natural resources.

Diffusion

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

Double Cropping

Harvesting twice a year from the same land

Primary Economic Activity

Involves jobs like lumber and mining

Secondary Economic Activity

Manufacturing products and assembling raw materials.

Tertiary Economic Activity

The service sector that provides us with transportation, communication and utilities

Quaternary Economic Activity

includes knowledge-oriented economic sectors such as information technology; media, research ,and development; information-based services such as information-generation and information-sharing.

Quinary Economic Activity

All of these jobs are necessary in the world and they are services that focus on the creation, re-arrangement and interpretation of new and existing ideas; evaluation of new technologies.

Environmental Modifications

The destruction of the environment for the purpose of farming. (Using pesticides that drain in to the water and soil and pollute them overuse of land causing the desert like conditions of desertification (dust bowl).