rural land use
Across
- 5. dietary energy consumption that is continously below minimum requirement to maintain a healthy lifestyle
- 6. the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
- 9. agriculture primarily used for sale and economic gain
- 10. the deliberate effort to modify a portion of the earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and raising livestock for sustenance or economic gain
- 11. a system of planting crops on ridge tops to reduce farm production costs and preserve soil
- 13. physical, social, and economic access to food at all times that is healthy and sufficient and can meet any dietary needs
- 14. the rapid diffusion of new technology in agriculture like fertilizer
- 16. harvesting twice a year on the same soil
Down
- 1. the capturing of fish more often than they can reproduce
- 2. the most productive land
- 3. any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a certain season
- 4. a living organism that posses genetic material that obtained through modern biotechnology
- 7. the time when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied of hunting and gathering
- 8. the practice of rotating different different fields to replenish the nutrients in the land
- 12. the abandonment of a land from excessive crop planting, tree cutting, and animal grazing that leads to abandonment in the land
- 15. a patch of land cleared by slashing and burning