8849321999 | Nonvectored Diseases | Infectious diseases transmitted by direct contact between host and victim. | 0 | |
8849322000 | vectored diseases | a disease carried from one host to another by an intermediate host | 1 | |
8849322001 | Truck farm | a farm where vegetables are grown for market | 2 | |
8849322002 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | 3 | |
8849322003 | trajedy of the commons | common resources can be overused | 4 | |
8849322004 | Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained | 5 | |
8849322005 | survey patterns | lines laid out by surveyors prior to the settlement of an area | 6 | |
8849322006 | Cadastral System | survey system that determines the value, extent, and ownership of land for purposes of taxation. | 7 | |
8849322007 | intensive agriculture | yields a large amount of output per acre through concentrated farming (uses a small amount of land) | 8 | |
8849322008 | extensive agriculture | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. | 9 | |
8849322009 | subsistence agriculture | level of farming in which a person raises only enough food to feed his or her family | 10 | |
8849322010 | Nucleated settlement | a compact closely packed settlement sharply demarcated from adjoining farmland | 11 | |
8849322011 | Rural settlement | Sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities | 12 | |
8849322012 | Primogeniture | A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land. | 13 | |
8849322013 | organic agriculture | crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers | 14 | |
8849322014 | Monoculture | cultivation of a single crop, usually in a large area | 15 | |
8849322015 | Mediterranean agriculture | specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails | 16 | |
8849322016 | luxury crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 17 | |
8849322017 | Local food movement | collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies | 18 | |
8849322018 | Horticulture | the art or practice of garden cultivation and management. | 19 | |
8849322019 | Pastoralism | A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals | 20 | |
8849322020 | shifting cultivation | a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another | 21 | |
8849322021 | Epidemic | A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease. | 22 | |
8849322022 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population | 23 | |
8849322023 | endemic | native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field | 24 | |
8849322024 | economy of scale | the cost per unit of weight decreases as the size of the shipment increases | 25 | |
8849322025 | Chemical Farming | Increased use of fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. | 26 | |
8849322026 | quinary economic activity | require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill | 27 | |
8849322027 | Quaternary Economic Activities | Economic activities concerned with research, information gathering, and administration. | 28 | |
8849322028 | tertiary economic activity | Service jobs - high level: bankers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, low level: retail, fast food, | 29 | |
8849322029 | secondary economic activity | when people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value | 30 | |
8849322030 | primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly, such as fishing or mining | 31 | |
8849322031 | debt for nature swap | Forgiveness of international debt in exchange for nature protection in developing countries | 32 | |
8849322032 | Desertification | The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like. | 33 | |
8849322033 | Commodity chains | A chain of activities from the manufacturing to the distribution of a product. | 34 | |
8849322034 | Biotechnology | The manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful products. | 35 | |
8849322035 | Aquaculture | The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions | 36 | |
8849322036 | Agribusiness | agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology. | 37 |
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