Agriculture

Agribusiness - Definition: Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. Simple Def: a large-scale farming enterprise Example: Tyson Chicken or Smithfield Pork Agriculture - Definition: The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. Simple Def: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock Example: Growing Crops. Aquaculture - Definition: rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food Simple Def: Farming Aquatic Organisms Example: Salmon Farms Biotechnology - Definition: the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments Simple Def: Use of living systems for to develop products Example: Vaccines Boserup hypothesis - Definition: Population growth compels subsistence farmers to consider new farming approaches that produce enough food to take care of the additional people. Carl Sauer - Geographer from the University of California at Berkeley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental un graphical analysis. This landscape results from interaction betwee and the physical environment. Sauer argued that virtually no land escaped alteration by human activities. Commercial Agriculture - Definition: Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.