APES Flashcards

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