GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Growing Season, Subsistence Agriculture, Scientific Management
Document Summary
What is economic geography: complex in terms of variations in economy around the world, variation in economies around the world but each economy is integrated. Economic sectors: increasing complexity and important movement into post-industrial, move from one sector adding value: increasing amount of wealth. Origins of agriculture map: emerged from different places then spread out, tropical to mid-latitude areas, no areas of agriculture in developed countries today, grass crops and root crops, variation is associated with geography, hot areas: roots, midlands: grass. Geographic influences on agriculture: geography and vegetation, temperature and precipitation don"t always correspond for agriculture purposes, helps understand the different forms of agriculture. Agricultural origins: correlation between where animals reside and climate, domestication of land and animals based upon knowledge, immerged independently and then a diffusion, limitations to physical environment, distances, and what technologies are available to move these things around. Agricultural systems: 2 categories: subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture, subsistence: negative way.
