ANT 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gullah, Kolach, Sustainable Agriculture
22 Nov 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Examples: the lumber industry cutting down trees, and planting trees. Bowl the great depression, farming constantly on the same land, all of the nutrients were gone and turned to dust. Prolong planting and the ability to have a farm that can continuously keep producing without depleting our resources and land. Monsanto is a big agriculture company and they buy out small farms and create super farms in order to sell the most product and weed out all competition, cheaper products. Continually producing in order to create a low price product. Genetically modify the seed with pesticides in order to make sure that every product is uniform. Horticulture- small scale of farming, gardening is horticulture (community garden) Environmental sustainability- we weren"t maintaining anything, there was no balance. The dustbowl happened bc we were planting the same crops on the same land. depletes nutrients: in lecture we watched the meaning of food video.
