GEOG 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter readings: Food Security, Renewable Resource, Natural Resource
6 Mar 2019
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Politics of resources: deposits of many resources are concentrated where you don"t have access to them. Food: problem with maintaining the world food supply is not critical in the short run world produces allot of food, some people starve means inequal distribution. Agricultural production is regionally specialized, reflecting the influence of multiple factors that range from environmental conditions. Market vs nature: want to maximize location of rent to obtain the highest income from their land, marginal profits- minimum necessary to make cultivation worthwhile. Intensive agriculture farming type characterized by high input and high income and yield: homogenous plains, as commercial agriculture expanded rapidly during the 19th c. led to. Food security and subsidies growth in intensification of agriculture: subsistence agriculture- household consumption, food security a problem for developed countries in at least 2 ways. Agriculture and the environment: big carbon footprint, high cost on consumers.
