Agriculture And Land Use
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
AGRICULTURE
- The dileberate tending of crops to produce food,feed and fiber.
- Agriculture is classified as a primary industry
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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
- Organic agriculture is production of crops without synthetic or industrial produced pesticides.
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PRIMARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
- Products closest to the ground
- Example: farming, extracting raw materials
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SECONDARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
- Takes primaries material and manufactures it
- Example: processing and packaging
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TERTIARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
- Service industry connecting the producers and the consumers.
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PRE AGRICULTURE
- Hunting and gathering
FIRST AGRICULTURAL REVOULOUTION
- Known to have started 14,000 years ago
- Root crops - Reproduced by cultivation of roots or cuttings from the plants.
- Seed crops - Reproduced by cultivation of seeds.
PLANT DOMESTICATION
- Allowed for enough crops to grow to sustain a population
- Plant domestication is suggested to have began 14000 years ago
- Marks the start of Neolithic Revolution (first agricultural revoloution)
ANIMAL DOMESTICATION
AGRICULTURAL HEARTHS
SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE
MODERN SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE
SHIFTING CULTIVATION
- Slash and burn agriculture
SECOND AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
- Seventeenth and eighteenth century
- Allowed for the industrial revolution to take place
- New technology and tools
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THE VON THÜNEN'S MODEL
THIRD AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
- Also known as green revolution, started in 1930s
- GMOs
- Advanced technology
REGIONAL AND LOCAL CHANGE
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TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE
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