Unit V: Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use
A. Development and diffusion of agriculture
1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
2. Second Agricultural Revolution
3. Green Revolution
4. Large scale commercial agricultural and agribusiness
B. Major agricultural production regions
1. Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones
2. Variations within major zones and effect of markets
3. Interdependence among regions of food production and consumption
C. Rural land use and settlement patters
1. Models of agricultural land use, including von Thünen’s model
2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types: subsistence cash cropping, plantation mixed farming,
monoculture, pastoralism, ranching, forestry fishing and aquaculture
3. Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification, deforestation, wetland destruction, conservation efforts to
protect or restore natural land cover, and global impacts
4. Roles of women in agriculture production and farming communities
D. Issues in contemporary commercial agriculture
1. Biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms (GMO)
2. Spatial organization of industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to large-scale commercial farming and
factors affecting the location of processing facilities
3. Environmental issues: soil degradation, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion, animal wastes, and extensive fertilizer
and pesticide use
4. Organic farming, crop rotation, value-added specialty foods, regional appellations, fair trade, and eat-local food
movements
5. Global food distribution, malnutrition, and famine
A. Development and diffusion of agriculture
1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
2. Second Agricultural Revolution
3. Green Revolution
4. Large scale commercial agricultural and agribusiness
B. Major agricultural production regions
1. Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones
2. Variations within major zones and effect of markets
3. Interdependence among regions of food production and consumption
C. Rural land use and settlement patters
1. Models of agricultural land use, including von Thünen’s model
2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types: subsistence cash cropping, plantation mixed farming,
monoculture, pastoralism, ranching, forestry fishing and aquaculture
3. Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification, deforestation, wetland destruction, conservation efforts to
protect or restore natural land cover, and global impacts
4. Roles of women in agriculture production and farming communities
D. Issues in contemporary commercial agriculture
1. Biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms (GMO)
2. Spatial organization of industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to large-scale commercial farming and
factors affecting the location of processing facilities
3. Environmental issues: soil degradation, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion, animal wastes, and extensive fertilizer
and pesticide use
4. Organic farming, crop rotation, value-added specialty foods, regional appellations, fair trade, and eat-local food
movements
5. Global food distribution, malnutrition, and famine
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Unit Readings:
*Rubenstein, Chapter 10, Agriculture *Big Doesn't Have to be Bad when Farming- Denver Post*Rubenstein: “Services in Rural Settlements” *FOCUS, Reading 6: Types of Barns in the Eastern United States Main Topics: 1. Development and diffusion of agriculture 2. Major agricultural production regions 3. Rural land use and settlement patterns 4. Modern commercial agriculture |
Week 9
Unit IV MC Test Ethnicity & Political (Chpt. 7/8) Week 10 VOCAB: von Thunen Model AG Laptopia Rural Land Patterns Homework: AG Laptopia Video: Food Inc. Review for Unit V Homework: Study for AG Exam |
Unit IV FRQ Essays Homework: Read Chpt. 10.1 10.3 WHERE ARE AGRICULTURAL REGIONS IN MDCS? VOCAB: GMOs, Green Revolution, Milkshed Reading Quiz 10.1 & 10.2 Online GMO Study Dairy/Organic Case Studies Homework: Read Chpt. 10.3 Unit V MC Test & FRQ |
10.1 WHERE DID AGRICULTURE ORIGINATE? VOCAB: Subsistence and Commercial Agriculture, Pastoral Nomadism, Subsistence Agriculture, Swidden Agricultural Revolutions Types of Farming in MDC Regions Subsistence v. Commercial Agriculture Types of Subsistence Agriculture Von Thunen's Model of Agricultural Land Use Homework: Read Chpt. 10.2 10.4 WHY DO FARMERS FACE ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES? Effects of Commercial Agriculture Integration of Agribusiness in Commercial Agriculture Homework: Read Chpt. 10.4 |
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10.2 WHERE ARE AGRICULTURAL REGIONS IN LDCS? Coffee Catagorilla Crops of the Tropics Coffee Story Homework: Finish Plantation Crops & Coffee Story Reading Quiz Chpt. 10 Video: Food Inc. Homework: |