APHuG U5

Agriculture

Agriculture

Climate regions

Commercial agriculture

Subsistence agriculture

Intensive agriculture

Extensive agriculture

Central Business District

Pastoral nomadism

Shifting cultivation

Plantation agriculture

Mixed Crop & Livestock

Agricultural Landscape

Commercial gardening

market gardening

Dairy farming

milk shed

mediterranean agriculture

transhumance

livestock ranching

clustered settlements

dispersed settlements

linear settlements

agroecosystem

foragers

suburbanizaton

First agricultural revolution

domestication

cash crop

fertile crescent

agricultural hearth

columbian exchange

second agricultural revolution

Enclosure system

crop rotation

global supply chains

third agricultural revoluion

green revolution

hybridization

genetically modified organism

bid-rent theory

Capital intensive

labor intensive

factory farming

aquaculture

double-cropping

intercropping

Monoculture

monocropping

feedlots

Agribusiness

reservoirs

vertical integration

subsidies

commodity chain

aquifiers

biodiversity

von thunen model

horticulture

free-market economy

comparative advantage

Precision agriculture

fair trade movement

Infrastructure

dual-agricultural economy

desertification

salinization

terrace farming

debt-for-nature swaps

wetlands

deforestation

slash-and-burn agriculture

biotechnology

organic food

value-added farming

Local-food movement

community gardens

community-supported agriculture

A system of agriculture where consumers directly support local farmers by purchasing shares of their harvest in advance, fostering a direct relationship between farmers and the community.

food insecurity

A condition in which people lack reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food, often leading to hunger and malnutrition.

food desert

An area with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, often characterized by the lack of nearby grocery stores.

Tariff

Tax on imports