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| 5446482299 | industrial agriculture | intensive farming practices involving mechanization and mass production | 0 | |
| 5446482300 | 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 | 1 | |
| 5446485847 | traditional subsistence | when each family in a community grows crops for themselves and rely on animal and human labor to plant and harvest crops. | 2 | |
| 5446485848 | traditional intensive | farmers increase their inputs of human and draft-animal labor, fertilizer, and water to obtain higher crop yields | 3 | |
| 5446490656 | polyvarietal cultivation | Planting a plot of land with several varieties of the same crop | 4 | |
| 5446490657 | intercropping | Growing two or more different crops at the same time on a plot. For example, a carbohydrate-rich grain that depletes soil nitrogen and a protein-rich legume that adds nitrogen to the soil may be intercropped. | 5 | |
| 5446492817 | polyculture | Complex form of intercropping in which a large number of different plants maturing at different times are planted together. | 6 | |
| 5446492818 | agro-forestry | Growing of trees for the benefit of agriculture. This can be used as windbreak or as protection against soil erosion. | 7 | |
| 5446503126 | undernutrition | condition caused by a diet deficient in Calories | 8 | |
| 5446503127 | malnutrition | faulty or inadequate diet poor nutrition that results from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet. | 9 | |
| 5446505057 | over nutrition | too much food energy or excess nutrients to the degree of causing disease or increasing risk of disease; a form of malnutrition | 10 | |
| 5446510745 | macronutrients | A chemical substance that an organism must obtain in relatively large amounts (protein, carbs, fat) | 11 | |
| 5446510746 | micronutrients | vitamins and minerals (vitamin A, C, E) | 12 |
