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| 8429193981 | Animal Husbandry (domestication) | The process whereby a population of animals through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control. | 0 | |
| 8429201343 | Agribusiness | a large-scale farming enterprise) highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership | 1 | |
| 8429207191 | Agriculture | the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals | 2 | |
| 8429211480 | Aquaculture | the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish and even plants. | 3 | |
| 8429214922 | Aquifer | Subterranean, porous, water-holding rocks that provide millions of wells with steady flows of water. | 4 | |
| 8429233879 | Bioclimatic Zone | Refer to the earth's 10 different zones; differentiated by soil, climate, water, plant life, and animal life | 5 | |
| 8429237464 | Biodiversity | The number of different species within a specific habitat. | 6 | |
| 8429247350 | Biotechnology | any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use | 7 | |
| 8429264595 | Norman, Borlaug | ..., A US scientist who worked on wheat in Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s; is credited with beginning the green revolution. | 8 | |
| 8429270695 | Boserup's Thesis | the view that pop. growth independantly forces a conversion from extensive to intensive subsistence agriculture | 9 | |
| 8429291590 | Cash Crops | crops grown for money; more specifically refers to more specialized crops located mainly in or near the tropics (e.g., sugar, cotton, rubber, bananas, oranges, ...) | 10 | |
| 8429309998 | Clustered Rural Settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each others fields and surround the settlement. | 11 | |
| 8429320255 | Collective Farm | regards a system of agricultural organization where as farms laborers are not compensated via wages. rather, the workers receive a share of the farm's net productivity | 12 | |
| 8429338561 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans. | 13 | |
| 8429346424 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 14 | |
| 8429380239 | Commercial Gardening | A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a MDC. Consists fruits | 15 | |
| 8429399308 | Commodity Chain | series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market | 16 | |
| 8429416747 | Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) | network between agricultural producers and consumers whereby consumers pledge support to farming operation in order to receive a share of the output from farming operation | 17 | |
| 8429429167 | Conservation | The sustainable use and management of a natural resource, through consuming at a less rapid rate than it can be replaced. | 18 | |
| 8429435717 | Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. | 19 | |
| 8429439256 | Dairy Agriculture | Raising cattle to sell dairy products. | 20 | |
| 8430001832 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting | 21 | |
| 8452493720 | Dispersed Rural Settlements | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | 22 | |
| 8452508915 | Double Cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. | 23 | |
| 8452528517 | Drug Crops | Crops that can be converted into drugs | 24 | |
| 8452543629 | Extensive Farming Practices | a form of subsistnece agriculture that involves large areas of land with minimal labor | 25 | |
| 8452879720 | Factory farm | A large-scale farming operation designed for efficient production. | 26 | |
| 8453035032 | Fair trade | Alternative to Industrial trade that emphasizes small bussinesses and worker owned/democraticall run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety hazards | 27 | |
| 8453126548 | Feedlot (CAFO) | Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) is an animal feeding operation (AFO) that concentrates large numbers of animals in relatively small and confined places, and that substitutes structures and equipment for land and labor | 28 | |
| 8453138270 | Fertilizers | any substance, such as manure, or a mixture of nitrates, added to soil or water to increase its productivity | 29 | |
| 8453950156 | First Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic Revolution) | allowed humans to become more sedentary and avail themselves of a more reliable source of food. very labor intensive at this point, requiring many people to produce only a small amount of food. with a more stable food source, the population began to grow, more people needed more food, and growing more food required more labor in self-perpetuating cycles of population growth. along with this plant domestication came animal domestication. | 30 | |
| 8453961230 | Food Desert | limited access to fresh nutritious foods - low income neighborhoods where consumers have little access to medium and large grocery stores. | 31 | |
| 8453965426 | Food Security | A person, a household or even a country has assured access to enough food at all times to ensure active and healthy lives | 32 | |
| 8453990113 | Gene Revolution | Since the 1980s, use of genetic engineering in agriculture Associated with MNCs, global capitalism, and private patents | 33 | |
| 8454006633 | Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) | Crops that carry genetically engineered traits. | 34 | |
| 8454016088 | Green Revolution | The recently successful development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries. | 35 | |
| 8454020563 | Herbicides | type of pesticide used to kill unwanted plants | 36 | |
| 8454078043 | High Yield Varieties (HYVs) | Produce more food with short growing seasons, drought/disease/pest resistance, rice, wheat, corn -use modern fertilizers & pesticides -good construction & modern pumps -irrigation methods -mechanization | 37 | |
| 8454091033 | Horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. | 38 | |
| 8454103995 | Horizontal Integration | ownership by the same firm of a number of companies that exist at the same point on a commodity chain. | 39 | |
| 8454116390 | Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | a form of subsistence agriculture where farmers expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum crop yield | 40 | |
| 8454146800 | Intertillage | In shifting cultivation, spreads out production over the farming season by planting different crops in the same field | 41 | |
| 8454166643 | Koppen Climatic Classification System | developed by wladimir koppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation | 42 | |
| 8454172063 | Livestock Ranching | The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other byproducts such as leather and wool. | 43 | |
| 8454192075 | Local Food Movement | Produced within a fairly limited distance from where it is consumed | 44 | |
| 8454216044 | Luxury Crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco. | 45 | |
| 8454230510 | Market Gardening | The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. Distinguishable by the large diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, during a single growing season. Labor is done manually. | 46 | |
| 8454238926 | Mediterranean 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, | 47 | |
| 8454247643 | Milkshed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied | 48 | |
| 8454583917 | Mixed Crop & Livestock Farming | Crops are not directly consumed by humans, they are consumed by livestock. | 49 | |
| 8454600423 | Monoculture | dependence on a single agricultural commodity | 50 | |
| 8454615324 | Organic Farming | approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicieds, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs | 51 | |
| 8454619765 | Overgrazing | Destruction of vegetation caused by too many grazing animals consuming the plants in a particular area so they cannot recover. | 52 | |
| 8454637735 | Pastoral Nomadism (patoralist) / Nomadic herding | Form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 53 | |
| 8454645089 | Pesticides | any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest | 54 | |
| 8458840677 | Plantation Agriculture | Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives | 55 | |
| 8458852412 | Prime Agricultural Land | The most productive farmland. | 56 | |
| 8458862586 | Primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 57 | |
| 8458875194 | Circular Rural Settlements | Type of settlement common in Germany which includes a central open space | 58 |
