GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Slash-And-Burn, Andes, Herding

• School: UConn
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1000
• Professor: Awanti Acharya, Hui Wang

Document Summary

Different types of agriculture and agricultural systems effect the level of productivity. For direct consumption: few capital inputs. Nomadic herding: controlled by movement of livestock, located in dry and cold climates. Swidden (shifting/slash-and-burn) cultivation: land is burned, cultivated for a few years, and then returned to natural state, located in tropical rainforests predominantly. Peasants agriculture: more intense version of swidden cultivation, large labor input per unit of land, sedentary (doesn"t move, mainly for direct consumption, but some exchange of crops --> cash crops, associated with rice production. Two growing seasons: found mainly in asia and andes mountains of sa. Uses more capital inputs than subsistence farming. Livestock ranching: meat in grown for urban markets around world, needs expansive area. Mediterranean agriculture: intensive land use for high value specialty crops, needs lots of irrigation. Prairie cereal agriculture: produces grains for human production, located in dry regions, production of specialized cash crops that are owned by outside investors.