Agriculture

Across

2. a system in which a farm operation is supported by shareholders within the community who share both the benefits and risks of food production.
3. 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. Draining water from a wetland to clear an area for farming; may have negative affects on the environment
9. Farming that doesnt use chemicals to grow the crops
11. Type of farming specific to a climate. Typically grapes, olives, and dates are grown.
17. Food hearth in the Middle East.
24. Farming done over a large space normally relying on a lot of machines
26. Farming for food
28. Areas typically in impoverished areas that do not have access to healthy food or grocery stores
29. Movement where local restaurants buy from local farmers
32. Survey pattern that lots were long and skinny giving the farmer access to a transportation system
33. Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is exchanged on the world market.
36. Networks that can span across multiple continents and countries for the purpose of sourcing and supplying goods and services.
39. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
40. The raising of sea creatures for consumption
42. Survey systems that created a grid pattern.
43. Practices that promote limited or net neutral effects on the environment
44. 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.
45. Also called swidden or slash and burn agriculture
46. Agriculture that is done to make money.
47. The agricultural type that grows fruits and vegetables in MDCS
48. The use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture & DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production

Down

1. Survey system that used landmarks to draw borders
4. Farming typically done on small plots of land and use mostly manual labor
6. Settlement pattern where house are in a straight line typically along a road or river
7. Organisms that are modified to yield a higher produce first used in the green revolution
8. Offshoot of the 3rd agricultural revolution that would bring the technology to LDCs and help increase food production.
10. 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
12. Theory that states as you move farther away from the market, land gets cheaper
13. Agricultural revolution where farming became industrialized
14. Settlement pattern where houses are spread out
15. Model that described different agricultural activities based off of their location from the market.
16. When farmers began using pesticides, fertilizers, and gmos
18. When one corporation controls a commodity chain
19. The amount of people that the land can support
20. Only type of commercial farming found in LDCs
21. Taking an agricultural product and making it into something like cheese or jam in order to make more money.
22. The movement of goods and people from the new world to old world.
23. Agricultural hearth in S.Asia
25. The system of bringing water to needed areas.
27. The counter to food deserts, this is were farms are built in cities.
30. When over farming leads to the soil getting too salty to grow crops.
31. Growing only one type of crop
34. LDC farming type where animals are moved from one grazing spot to another
35. The inability to get food due to lack of resources
37. When large amount of trees are cut down
38. Movement to ensure that famers get paid more
41. A settlement pattern where houses are close together