GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cottage Country, Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Idyll
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Shifting cultivation (growing crops on different plots of land) Pastoralism (always on the move, heading culture) With the domestication of plants and animals. Humans don"t have to move, and now staying in place is the norm. Uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to improve, make or modify plants and animals to develop these beings for specific purposes. Plants created that are resistant to roundup (corn, soybeans, alfalfa, canola, cotton) We don"t know about the long term consequences of using biotechnology. Plants are grown where they might not occur naturally, taking away the market from where they natural occur. Much of the developing world grows cotton, an important part of their economy, by growing cotton in the middle of a desert robs the land of water and developing economies from a market. These technologies are in the most affluent, wealthy nations and there is little sharing. Food regimes based on fresh fish, fruits and vegitables.
