EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Food Security, Pollination, Intensive Farming
29 Apr 2016
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Rosetta landing date: november 12th but there are fundamental challenges. Agriculture was developed in di erent locations @ di erent times but they all lead to the same thing (things were all done the same way) Traditional vs. industrial agriculture agriculture was once very simple we think that agriculture is going back to the olden days but really we use some much machinery in agriculture that its not really like the old days. Increases in agricultural productivity during mid-to late 20th century. This is not just changes in the type of crops that we re plants but we are planting more crops in more areas and it is all about the distribution. Intensi cation = better productivity per unit of land. Fertilizer impacts the amount of inorganic fertilizers are mined (n2, p4, k) . also this can be run-o that a ects the environment as the dominant nutrient will take over.
