GMS 401 Study Guide - Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada, Veal, Semiotics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Kirk Bailey

Document Summary

The geography of food is about who eats what, why and where. The oldest documented human behaviour; picking teeth. The basic enterprise of human activity is to secure food and water. The primary human activity is fishing, farming (agriculture), and hunting. Nothing takes up more land than farming. We have changed the appearance of landscape; most obvious evidence has involved farming. 250 million farmers around the world; numbers are going down dramatically certainly in canada. Number of farms go down, number of farmers go up. Enormous range of animals and plants we eat. As humans, we have settled about 1000 different types of plants. Human nutrition derives from a group of 1000 plants. In terms in commercial liability and suitability for raising as a crop in some kind of agriculture enterprise, we have established over 1000 different types of plants (farmers have concentrated on this) The earth"s land surface (about one third of the planet) is involved in agriculture.