Unit 5 Vocab - Agriculture

commercial agriculture (in MDCs) where farming is integrated into a large-food production industry (different steps)

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

Porous, subterranean, water retaining rocks that provide steady water flow to millions of wells

Economic, geographical theory that refers to how price and demand on real estate changes as distance towards the Central Business District (market/city center) increases.

The use of genetically altered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm building of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement

Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market

An agreement between an indebted developing nation and its creditors. Creditors will concur to forgive debts in return for environmental protection.

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crops planting, animal grazing and tree cutting

The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories