Chapter+8

=Agriculture, Food Production, Hunger, and the Environment = = = media type="custom" key="27807893" =media type="custom" key="27807889" = =Vocabulary:= 1. Agricultural system 2. Crop rotation 3.Plantation system 4. diffusion and exchange 5. Commercial agricultural system 6. Mechanization and specialization' 7. Specialized production regions (eg, corn belt) 8. High yield 9.High food value 10.storage ability 11. Staple crops 12.Small scale subsidence farming 13. Intensive subsidence farming 14. Multiple cropping 15, Intercropping 16. Hybrid varieties 17. Shifting cultivation 18. Nomadic herding 19. Starvation 20. Undernutrition 21. Micronutrient deficiencies 22. Nutrient-depleting diseases and parasites 23. Famine 24. Schistosomiasis 25. Land tenure 26. New strategies for traditional agriculture 27. Agroforestry 28. Nutrient recycling 29. Transgenic crops 30. Genetic engineering 31.Gene splicing 32. soil erosion 33. Salinization and waterlogging 34. Groundwater depletion 35. Surface water loss 36. Substitution and simplification 37. Ecosystem losses 38. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) 39. Environmental regulation 40. Strip cropping 41. Conservation tillage 42. Contour plowing 43. Windbreaks and shelter-belts 44, Stubble-mulching 45. Crop Rotation 46. Organic fertilizers 47. Biological pest controls 48. Drip irrigation 49. Annuals/ perennials 50. Natural resource accounting 51. Negative pollution tax 52. Pollution rights

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= [|America Revealed: The Food Machine] =

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