GEOG 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Food Security, Vertical Integration, Fertile Crescent
9 Dec 2015
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Today agriculture is a highly complex, globally integrated system. Agriculture has gone through three revolutions, each transforming the practice in major ways. Agriculture of the present is highly industrialized through the use of mechanization, chemical fertilizers, and through links to other sectors of the economy such as food processing and transportation. This chapter explores different kinds of agriculture and the regions in which each is practiced. Students should be aware of how agricultural practices in, for example, the tropics and in temperate regions, differ from each other. Students should also be aware that political and historical forces can be just as important as the physical environment in determining patterns of agriculture, as the example of canada shows. Modern agriculture is the major focus of this chapter, especially the process of industrialization. Agriculture is now part of the world economic system, and hence its economic, social, and environmental impacts are also global in nature.
