ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Monocropping, Intensive Farming, Global Warming
19 Apr 2017
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The way a society transforms environmental resources into food. The number of people inhabiting a given area of land. Yield per person per hour of labor invested. A food-getting strategy that does not involve food production or domestication of animals and that involves no conscious effort to alter the environment. A food-getting strategy that depends on the card of domesticated herd animals. A form of pastoralism in which the whole social group (men, women, and children) and their animals move in search of pasture technology. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plow, animals, and techniques of soil and water control. Rural cultivators who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger, complex state societies. A system of production dependent on investments in machinery, technology, communication, and information. The integration of resources, labor, and capital into a global network. Industrialized agriculture has brought many problems into the environment.
