APHG Unit 5 Vocab

Another name for shifting cultivation

• slash-and-burn agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

• swidden

• ridge tillage

Degradation of land, especially in semi arid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting

• No tillage

• Double cropping

• Desertification

• Commercial agriculture

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Agriculture

• Fish farming

• Aquaculture

• GMO

A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding animals

• Pastoral nomadism

• Sawah

• Transhumance

• Subsistence agriculture

A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning

• Slash and burn agriculture

• Shifting cultivation

• Sawah

• Swidden

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers

• Horticulture

• Green revolution

• Grain

• Agricultural revolution

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

• GMO

• double cropping

• Mixed crop farming

• crop rotation

characteristic of Asia's major population concentrations om which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

• Paddy

• Intensive subsistence agriculture

• sawah

• transhumance

Physical, social. and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy live

• food security

• ranching

• dietary energy consumption

• commercial agriculture

dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirements for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity

• subsistence agriculture

• dietary energy consumption

• overfishing

• undernourishment