GG102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Denudation, Soil Retrogression And Degradation, Slow Food
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Agrarian: referring to the culture of agricultural communities and the type of tenure system that determines access to land and the kind of cultivation practices employed there. Agriculture: a science, an art and a business directed at the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance and profit. Commercial agriculture: farming primarily for sale, not for direct consumption. Hunting and gathering: activities whereby people feed themselves through killing wild animals and fish and gathering fruits, roots, nuts and other edible plants (believed to be the starting of agriculture) Subsistence agriculture: farming for direct consumption by the producers, not for sale (proceeded hunting gathering) Shifting cultivation: a system in which farmers aim to maintain soil fertility by rotating the fields within which cultivation occurs (save the soil) Swidden: land that is cleared using the splash and burn process and is ready for cultivation.
