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| 747992614 | Organic Agriculture | crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers | 0 | |
| 747992616 | agriculture | A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows, animals, and techniques of soil and water control. farming | 1 | |
| 747992627 | primary economic activity | economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture | 2 | |
| 747992632 | secondary economic activity | Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector | 3 | |
| 747992633 | tertiary economic activity | economic activity associated with the provision fo services (transportation, banking, retailing, education, routine, office-based jobs) | 4 | |
| 747992634 | quaternary economic activity | service sector industires concerned with the collection, processing, and manipuation of information and capital (finance, administration, insurance, legal services) | 5 | |
| 747992635 | quniary economic activity | The main categories of industry today include the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The quinary sector could be seen as a further division of the tertiary sector, which is a part of the economy that provides services | 6 | |
| 747992669 | plant domestication | genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention | 7 | |
| 747992672 | root crops | crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants | 8 | |
| 747992673 | seed crops | crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants | 9 | |
| 747992675 | first agricultural revolution | Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication | 10 | |
| 747992923 | animal domestication | the taming of animals through generations of breeding to live in close association with humans as a pet or work animal | 11 | |
| 747992924 | subsistence agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family | 12 | |
| 747992925 | shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. | 13 | |
| 747992926 | slash and burn agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 14 | |
| 747992927 | second agricultural revolution | Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce. | 15 | |
| 747992928 | von Thunen model | A model that explains the location of agricultureal activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market | 16 | |
| 747992929 | third agricultural revolution | Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) | 17 | |
| 747992934 | green revolution | A shift in agricultural practices in the twentieth century that included new management techniques, mechanization, fertilization, irrigation, and improved crop varieties, and resulted in increased food output | 18 | |
| 747992935 | genetically modified organisms | An organism whose genetic material has been altered through some genetic engineering technology or technique. | 19 | |
| 747992936 | rectangular survey system | Also called the Public Land Survey, the system was used by the US Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The system divides land into a series of rectangular parcels. | 20 | |
| 747992937 | township and range system | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. | 21 | |
| 747992938 | metes and bounds system | A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. Because of the imprecise nature of metes and bounds surveying, the U.S. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system. | 22 | |
| 747992939 | long-lot survey system | distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian Maritimes, parts of Quebec, Louisiana, and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals | 23 | |
| 747992940 | primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn child | 24 | |
| 747992941 | commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 25 | |
| 747992942 | monoculture | farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year | 26 | |
| 747992943 | Koppen climatic classification system | Developed by Wladimir Köppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation | 27 | |
| 747992944 | climatic regions | Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics | 28 | |
| 747992947 | 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 | 29 | |
| 747992948 | luxury crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 30 | |
| 747992952 | livestock ranching | An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West. | 31 | |
| 747992953 | 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, | 32 | |
| 747992955 | agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. | 33 | |
| 965183213 | cash crops | The term cash crop is applied exclusively to the agricultural production of plants; animal agriculture is not a part of the terminology. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family. | 34 | |
| 146882651 | food desert | A food desert is a geographic area where affordable and nutritious food is difficult to obtain, particularly for those without access to an automobile. | 35 |
