GGR287H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dairy Cattle, Vandana Shiva, Vacuum Packing
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Agronomy: science of field-crop production and soil management. Horticulture: cultivation of crops (simple hand tools or modern technologies) Why agriculture: plants, food, fiber (cotton, linen, medicine, narcotics, containers, musical instruments, livestock, meat, milk, manure, plough animals, clothing, other materials, transportation, turning organic waste to good use. Subsistence agriculture: rst (basic characteristics, small-scale production, several different kinds of crops + animals, primarily for family consumption rather than sale, crops. Mostly cereals and tubers, but always some diversity. Grow as much food as possible (costs no consideration) Fed inedible organic waste, low-grade forage, left to scrounge for themselves: shifting agriculture, brazil, indonesia, pastoral nomadism. local urban food production: for most of history, urban perishable food supply <50 km, human, dog, cat, and poultry food in victorian cities Center city - a flat plain, people tend to gather in the middle (landscape with rainbow, henley- on-thames, jan siberechts, c. 1690)
