Pre-Reading Vocabulary (Glickman)

They produce relatively low volumes of crops on small plots of land. They generally have fewer resources than commercial-scale farmers and may depend on family labor.

• the private sector  

• smallholders/

  small-scale farmers

• the commericial agriculture industry

• small governments

(n.) the crops gathered at the end of a season

(v.) to pick, catch, or collect a crop

• subsistence farming

• infrastructure

• food supply

• harvest

in a way that continues in the long term or develops slowly over time

• chronically

• acutely

growing crops and raising livestock to meet one’s own needs, without little or no surplus

• smallholders/small-scale farmers

• compensate for

• subsistence farming

• commercial farming

the basic physical systems and facilities of a city, region, or country. Examples include transportation systems, roads, sewage, water supply, electric systems, waste management, and communication networks

• economics

• infrastructure

• the private sector

• facilities

to provide an equivalent for something; to balance or make up for something

• to compensate for

• to supply

• to harvest

• to empower

businesses and industries that are not owned or run by the government

• smallholders/

  small-scale farmers

• infrastructure

• the private sector

• public institutions