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9880444031	debt for nature swap	A country's foreign debt is forgiven in return for a promise to protect the environment.	0
9880456916	double cropping	planting 2 crops per year	1
9880468164	extractive industry	industries involved in the activities of: prospecting and exploring for a nonrenewable resource, getting them, further exploring them, developing them, or extracting them from the earth	2
9880504119	First Agricultural Revolution	dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.	3
9880516171	Green Revolution	the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s	4
9880532339	intertillage	the manual clearing of rows in the field though the use of hoes, rakes, and other manual equipment	5
9880546639	medditerranean 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.	6
9880555412	planned economy	An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution.	7
9880583710	Second Agricultural Revolution	Improvements in farming methods that began in the later Middle Ages	8
9880600016	staple grains	Maize, wheat, and rice are the most produced grains produced world wide	9
9880606533	suitcase farming	Individuals who live in urban areas a great distance from their land and drive to the country to care for their crops and livestock.	10
9880616755	Tragedy of the common	social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good.	11