SOIM-UB 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cotton Gin, The Peripheral, Redlining
19 Aug 2016
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A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. Mass profit, almost all diary products are from commercial farming. They use genetically modified plants, and sometimes animals. They grow the worlds largest crops like wheat, rice , corn, and pretty much everything you find in kroger. They also raise animals like cows, pigs, and chickens. Almost all dairy products come from a commercial farm. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Fertile crescent, china, north africa, southeast asia, and latin america. Domestication- animals (about 40 species today) occurred after people became more sedentary.
