GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Selective Breeding, Land Degradation, Natural Selection
15 Jun 2015
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Plants and animals species require specific physical environmental conditions. Soil: depth, texture, acidity, and nutrient composition. Humans can maniulate the physical environment to artificailly create suitable physical environmental conditions. High energy inputs culture and religious factors. Religion influences agriculture as value is attached to certain agricultural goods. Wine and bread are valued by christianity. Providing subsidies for land clearing or adoption of new technologies and methods. Farmers in the less developed world tend not to be profit maximizers, but their behavior may be rational. The surplus income that accrues to a unit of land above the minimum income needed to bring a unit of new land into production at the margins of production. Normative theory: describes what is rational and optimal according to specified criteria. A body of theories explaining the distribution of economic activities. Agricultural location theorists combine location theory with the concept of economic rent. Addresses the issue of where specified agricultural activities should be lcoated.
