GEOG 1035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Norman Borlaug, Manufactured Landscapes
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Jan. 18: Food and Agriculture Contd.
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Subsistence vs. Commercial Agriculture
•Growing products to eat vs. growing food to sell.
•Small vs. Large farms
•Little to No Machinery Used vs. Daily Machinery Used
The Green Revolution
•All started with a man named Dr. Norman Borlaug, he was the 1970 Nobel Prize
winner.
•Came up with the concept of using GMO’s and other chemicals to mass produce fruits
and vegetables. This had positive and negative consequences.
-> North Americans try to set limits on the amounts of chemicals used to grow our food,
but this does not mean that other countries are following in our footsteps.
-> These chemicals we are using on our crops are very expensive for the farmers to
buy, the farmers typically never sell enough agriculture in order to gain the money back
that they lost due to purchasing the chemicals. Typically the farmers are unable to pay
back the money and end up in copious amounts of debt.
-> We are running out of nutrients in the soil, therefore compromising good soil, this is
largely due to the Green Revolution.
Rained and Irrigated Aquaculture
•Irrigation and rainfall are crucial to growing agriculture, and when certain locations of
the world have a soil or water issue, or even both, then this results in no agricultural
production.
Urban Farming
•New ideas for farming are gaining in popularity, things like plants growing on city
buildings, having farms surrounding the city and on the viable land. This could be the
solution to our inevitable future.
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Document Summary
Subsistence vs. commercial agriculture: growing products to eat vs. growing food to sell, small vs. large farms, little to no machinery used vs. daily machinery used. The green revolution: all started with a man named dr. norman borlaug, he was the 1970 nobel prize winner, came up with the concept of using gmo"s and other chemicals to mass produce fruits and vegetables. > north americans try to set limits on the amounts of chemicals used to grow our food, but this does not mean that other countries are following in our footsteps. > these chemicals we are using on our crops are very expensive for the farmers to buy, the farmers typically never sell enough agriculture in order to gain the money back that they lost due to purchasing the chemicals. Typically the farmers are unable to pay back the money and end up in copious amounts of debt.
