Agriculture

Across

3. Growing only one type of crop
4. The savings in cost per unit due to increasing the level of production (think Fordism). Sig: Agribusiness produces cheaper crops and finished goods than traditional farming, in part, because they produce at a large scale.
5. Food hearth in the Middle East.
7. When one corporation controls a commodity chain
8. The use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture & DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production
12. Method of farming used on hilly or mountainous terrain where steps are carved into steep land to provide a flat area for farming and irrigation.
13. a system in which a farm operation is supported by shareholders within the community who share both the benefits and risks of food production.
20. Agricultural hearth in S.Asia
21. Movement to ensure that famers get paid more
24. Farming done over a large space normally relying on a lot of machines
28. Survey system that used landmarks to draw borders
30. Theory that states as you move farther away from the market, land gets cheaper
32. The inability to get food due to lack of resources
34. Practices that promote limited or net neutral effects on the environment
36. Settlement pattern where houses are spread out
38. Agricultural revolution where farming became industrialized
39. When large amount of trees are cut down
40. When over farming leads to the soil getting too salty to grow crops.
41. A type of agriculture where both plants and animals are grown for their produce and often the leftover plants are used to feed the animals, who in turn produce dung that is used as fertilizer for the plants
42. Taking an agricultural product and making it into something like cheese or jam in order to make more money.
43. The system of bringing water to needed areas.
44. Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is exchanged on the world market.
45. A settlement pattern where houses are close together
46. Settlement pattern where house are in a straight line typically along a road or river
47. The agricultural type that grows fruits and vegetables in MDCS

Down

1. Farming for food
2. Survey pattern that lots were long and skinny giving the farmer access to a transportation system
6. Offshoot of the 3rd agricultural revolution that would bring the technology to LDCs and help increase food production.
9. Farming typically done on small plots of land and use mostly manual labor
10. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
11. The counter to food deserts, this is were farms are built in cities.
13. Agriculture that is done to make money.
14. The amount of people that the land can support
15. When farmers began using pesticides, fertilizers, and gmos
16. Organisms that are modified to yield a higher produce first used in the green revolution
17. The movement of goods and people from the new world to old world.
18. The raising of sea creatures for consumption
19. Only type of commercial farming found in LDCs
22. Model that described different agricultural activities based off of their location from the market.
23. Networks that can span across multiple continents and countries for the purpose of sourcing and supplying goods and services.
25. Type of farming specific to a climate. Typically grapes, olives, and dates are grown.
26. Also called swidden or slash and burn agriculture
27. Movement where local restaurants buy from local farmers
29. LDC farming type where animals are moved from one grazing spot to another
31. Draining water from a wetland to clear an area for farming; may have negative affects on the environment
33. Survey systems that created a grid pattern.
35. Farming that doesnt use chemicals to grow the crops
37. Areas typically in impoverished areas that do not have access to healthy food or grocery stores