Agriculture and Food

Involves the breeding and herding of animals, may range from sheep, goats, cattle, reindeer, camels, etc...

• Pastoralism

• Hunters

• Gatherers

• Deforestation

__________ pastoralism refers to those farmers who live in their villages and their herd animals in nearby pastures. A number of men usually are hired by the villagers in order to take care of their animals

• Nomadic

• Sedentary

• Roaming

• Wandering

________ is a seasonal vertical movement by herding the livestock (cows, sheep, goats, and horses) to cooler, greener high-country pastures in the summer and then returning them to lowland settings for fall and winter grazing.

• Desertification

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Transhumance

• Transportation

In recent decades, as the result of the introduction of higher-yielding grain varieties such as wheat, corn, and rice, known as ________ Revolution, tens of millions of subsistence farmers have been lifted above the survival level

• Purple

• Green

• Red

• Yellow

________ agriculture, generally practiced in core countries outside the tropics, is developed primarily to generate products for sale to food processing companies

• Commercial

• Subsistence

• Environmental

• Grain

_______ pastoralism is a traditional form of subsistence agriculture in which the pastoralists travel with their herds over long distances and with no fixed pattern. This is a continuous movement of groups of herds and people

• Sedentary

• Stationary

• Anchored

• Nomadic