Rural Land

1. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
4. Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
5. The most productive farmland.
8. The delibrate effort to modify a portion
11. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semi-arid land degradation.
12. revolution Rapid diffusion (spread) of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
13. earth's surface through the cultivition of the crops and the rising livestocks of the sustenance or economic gain.
15. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
17. A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.

2. plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
3. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
6. the time when human beings first
7. Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
9. Capturing the fish faster than they can reproduce.
10. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
14. Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity.
16. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
18. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.