GEOG 129 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Lower Mainland, Highway, Land Values
18 May 2017
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Chapter outline: the agricultural location problem, distance, land value, and land use, domesticating plants and animals, world agricultural landscapes, global agricultural restructuring, food production, consumption, and identity. Competition for land: different activities compete for use of any location. 2 p = market price per unit commodity a = production cost per unit commodity f = transport rate per unit distance per unit commodity. Domesticating plants and animals: the imprint of the past is still clearly to be seen in the world pattern of agriculture. To understand the present it is essential to know something of the evolution of the modern types of agriculture. Early domestication and diffusion: agriculture originated in the domestication of plants, and then animals, 12,000 years ago in the jordan valley, diffused replacing hunting and gathering, africa, north american midwest, central america, western south america, and southern.
