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| 9356790645 | Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food processing industry usually through ownership of large corporations Ex: Tyson Chicken or Smithfield Pork | 0 | |
| 9356790646 | Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering Ex: | 1 | |
| 9356796324 | Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify the portion of Earth's surface to the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain Ex: Planting and growing crops | 2 | |
| 9356796325 | Aquaculture (or aqua farming) | The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions Ex: |  | 3 |
| 9356798618 | Cereal grain | The grass that yields grain for food Ex: Oats, Wheat, Rye, and Barley |  | 4 |
| 9356798619 | Commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm Ex: Tyson Farms | 5 | |
| 9356798620 | Crop | Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season Ex: Corn and Wheat | 6 | |
| 9356800186 | Crop rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil Ex: Field A grows x crop one year, y crop the next year, z crop the year after that, and then goes back to x crop once the cycle has restarted. |  | 7 |
| 9356800187 | Dairy farm | A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products Ex: |  | 8 |
| 9356800188 | Desertification | Degradation of land especially in semi arid areas primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting animal grazing and tree cutting also known as semi-arid land degradation Ex: Some desertification is occurring in the Amazon Rainforest, because companies want the lumber, and urbanization so they destroy and cut down majority of the trees | 9 | |
| 9356801452 | Dietary energy consumption | The amount of food that an individual consumes measured and kilocalories (Calories in the United States) Ex: |  | 10 |
| 9356801453 | Double-cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field Ex: Winter Wheat is grown in addition to normal crop rotation |  | 11 |
| 9356803525 | Fishing | The capture of wild fish and other seafood living in the waters Ex: |  | 12 |
| 9356803526 | Food security | Physical social and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet delivery needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life Ex: | 13 | |
| 9356803527 | Genetically modified organism (GMO) | A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology Ex: Injecting tomatoes with GMOs to make them taste better or make them grow bigger |  | 14 |
| 9356805632 | Grain | Seed of a cereal grass Ex: |  | 15 |
| 9356805633 | Green Revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers Ex: India underwent/went through the Green Revolution because they introduced genetic engineering, hybridization, and chemical fertilizers to themselves | 16 | |
| 9356805634 | Horticulture | The growing of fruits vegetables and flowers Ex: Growing strawberries, cucumbers, growing sunflowers |  | 17 |
| 9356807909 | Intensive subsistence agriculture | A form of subsistence agriculture characteristics of Asia's major population concentrations in which Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land Ex: Majority of families in LDCs must undergo intensive subsistence agricultural practices in order to provide for themselves and survive | 18 | |
| 9356807910 | Milkshed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is applied Ex: The rural areas surrounding Denver comprise Denver's milk shed, A milkshed could be 100 miles around a city. | 19 | |
| 9356807911 | Mixed crop and livestock farming | Commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans Ex: | 20 | |
| 9356810626 | No tillage | A farming practice that leaves all of the soil undistributed in the entire residue of the previous year's harvest left untouched on the fields Ex: |  | 21 |
| 9356810627 | Overfishing | Capturing fish faster than they can reproduce Ex: |  | 22 |
| 9356810628 | Paddy- | The Malay word for wet rice increasingly used to describe a flooded field Ex: |  | 23 |
| 9356812981 | Pastoral nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals Ex: Camel Herders |  | 24 |
| 9356812982 | Plantation | A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale usually to a more developed country Ex: A Sugar Cane plantation grows more than sugar | 25 | |
| 9356812983 | Prime agricultural land | The most productive farmland Ex: | 26 | |
| 9356816197 | Ranching | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extended area Ex: A lot of Cattle Ranching occurs in West Texas |  | 27 |
| 9356816198 | Ridge tillage | A system of planting crops on Ridge tops in order to reduce Farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation Ex: |  | 28 |
| 9356816199 | Sawah | A flooded field for growing rice Ex: Sawahs can been seen in Africa and the Middle East. |  | 29 |
| 9356818136 | Shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another, each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period Ex: |  | 30 |
| 9356818137 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris Ex: |  | 31 |
| 9356819939 | Subsistence agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to produce food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmers family Ex: Majority of families in LDC's do this action, because they can only grow so much to provide for themselves, and their family | 32 | |
| 9356819940 | Swidden | A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning Ex: |  | 33 |
| 9356819941 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowlands pastures Ex: Sheep are most commonly used for/during transhumance |  | 34 |
| 9356821849 | Truck farming | Commercial gardening in Fruit farming so name for the Middle English word truck meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities" Ex: |  | 35 |
| 9356821850 | Undernourishment | Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity Ex: Many kids and families in LDC's are undernourished because they do not get the nutrients and things they need to stay healthy (Lack of proteins) | 36 | |
| 9356821851 | Wet rice | Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then move to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth Ex: Can be seen in majority of Asia |  | 37 |
