9880444031 | debt for nature swap | A country's foreign debt is forgiven in return for a promise to protect the environment. | 0 | |
9880456916 | double cropping | planting 2 crops per year | 1 | |
9880468164 | extractive industry | industries involved in the activities of: prospecting and exploring for a nonrenewable resource, getting them, further exploring them, developing them, or extracting them from the earth | 2 | |
9880504119 | First Agricultural Revolution | dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication. | 3 | |
9880516171 | Green Revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s | 4 | |
9880532339 | intertillage | the manual clearing of rows in the field though the use of hoes, rakes, and other manual equipment | 5 | |
9880546639 | medditerranean agriculture | An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean-style climates of Western Europe, California, and portions of Chile and Australia, in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes, avocados. | 6 | |
9880555412 | planned economy | An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution. | 7 | |
9880583710 | Second Agricultural Revolution | Improvements in farming methods that began in the later Middle Ages | 8 | |
9880600016 | staple grains | Maize, wheat, and rice are the most produced grains produced world wide | 9 | |
9880606533 | suitcase farming | Individuals who live in urban areas a great distance from their land and drive to the country to care for their crops and livestock. | 10 | |
9880616755 | Tragedy of the common | social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good. | 11 |
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