Examples of agriculture in the following topics:
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- According to market-oriented theories of inequality, the low wage earned by seasonal agricultural laborers will encourage members of the labor pool to acquire other skills, which in term will raise the wage earned by agricultural laborers.
- For example, in countries with huge pools of unskilled agricultural laborers but limited agricultural land, agricultural land is very poorly compensated.
- According to market-oriented theories, over time the low wages earned by agricultural laborers will induce more people to learn other skills, thus reducing the pool of agricultural laborers.
- With less supply and stable demand, the wage for agricultural labor will rise to a sustainable level.
- Thus, the status of agricultural laborers will rise, and inequality will be reduced.
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- Pre-industrial typically have predominantly agricultural economies and limited production, division of labor, and class variation.
- The economy was based mostly on agricultural production.
- A hunter-gatherer society is one in which most or all food is obtained by gathering wild plants and hunting wild animals, in contrast to agricultural societies which rely mainly on domesticated species.
- Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers in most parts of the world were displaced by farming or pastoral groups who staked out land and settled it, cultivating it or turning it into pasture for livestock.
- This painting from feudal time shows how fields surrounded the feudal manor where the noble who owned the farms lived--a good depiction of how society was oriented around the agricultural economy.
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- Early cities arose in a number of regions, and are thought to have developed for reasons of agricultural productivity and economic scale.
- The conventional view holds that cities first formed after the Neolithic Revolution, with the spread of agriculture.
- Agriculture yielded more food, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development.
- Many theorists hypothesize that agriculture preceded the development of cities and led to their growth.
- A good environment includes clean water and a favorable climate for growing crops and agriculture.
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- The line between agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies is not clear cut.
- Most agricultural people also tend to do some hunting and gathering.
- Some agricultural groups farm during the temperate months and hunt during the winter.
- Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture or industrial agriculture.
- Subsistence agriculture is agriculture carried out for the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the agriculturalist and his/her family.
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- Horticulture differs from agriculture in that agriculture employs animals, machinery, or other non-human means to facilitate the cultivation of crops.
- In agriculture, through the cultivation of plants and the raising of domesticated animals, food, feed, fiber and other desired commodities are produced.
- In comparison with the previously mentioned societal types, agriculture supports a much greater population density and allows for the accumulation of excess product.
- In a post-industrial society, the primary means of subsistence is derived from service-oriented work, as opposed to agriculture or industry.
- Less than 2% of the US population is employed in agriculture.
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- Mexico has rapidly changed from a primarily agricultural country to one with significant industry, including industrialized agriculture.
- Another term for urbanization is "rural flight. " In modern times, this flight often occurs in a region following the industrialization of agriculture—when fewer people are needed to bring the same amount of agricultural output to market—and related agricultural services and industries are consolidated.
- In the developing world, huge cities with sprawling slums have developed as agriculture and rural occupations have been supplanted by mechanized industries.
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- In the second state, with the development of agriculture, humans are able to pass information through individual experience .
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- Some human populations throughout history support this theory, as consistent population growth began with the agricultural revolution, when food supplies consistently increased.
- This research suggests that the planet can potentially provide sufficient food for the projected peak population of humans of 9 billion people, but only if agriculture is carefully managed.
- The world's current agricultural production, if it were distributed evenly, would be sufficient to feed everyone living on the Earth today.
- Other measures include effective family planning programs, local renewable energy systems, sustainable agriculture methods and supplies, reforestation, and measures to protect the local environment.
- David Pimentel, a Cornell University professor of ecology and agricultural sciences, sees several possible scenarios for the 22nd century:
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- For example, in the mid-20th century, the Green Revolution in agriculture dramatically increased available food by spreading farming technology like fertilizer and increasing efficiency in agriculture.
- In the future, production might be increased by innovations such as genetically modified crops, more efficiently employing agricultural technology, and aquaculture.
- The Green Revolution was a period of rapid technological innovation in agricultural, which made food resources more widely available than expected and thus reduced the global mortality rate.
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- Critics of the role of free trade in food distribution have used agricultural regions of Mexico as an example of its negative effects in some areas, Mexican farm workers live in hunger and suffer from malnutrition, while the crops they produce are exported to wealthy markets in the United States and Europe, which are more profitable for landowners.
- Critics of the role of free trade in food distribution have used agricultural regions of Mexico as an example of its negative effects -- in some areas, Mexican farmworkers live in hunger and suffer from malnutrition while the crops they produce are exported to wealthy markets in the U.S. and Europe, which are more profitable for landowners.
- The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations purports that the world already produces enough food to feed everyone–over 6 billion people–and could feed double that number of people.
- Some organizations raise the issue of food sovereignty and claim that every country on earth (with the possible minor exceptions of some city-states) has sufficient agricultural capacity to feed its own people, but that the free trade economic order prevents this from happening.