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Unit 5: Agricultue and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes

5.1 Introduction to Agriculture 
5.2 Settelments and Patterns of Survey Methods
5.3  Agricultural Origins and Diffusions 
5.4 The Second Agricultural Revolution
5.5 The Green Revolution 

Objectives

  • Explain the connection between physical geography and agricultural practices.

  • Identify different rural settlement patterns and methods of surveying rural settlements.

  • Identify major centers of domestication of plants and animals.

  • Explain how plants and animals diffused globally.

  • Explain the advances and impacts of the second agricultural revolution.

  • Explain the consequences of the Green Revolution on food supply and the environment in the developing world.

Reading

Activities

Human Geography: Chapters 

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Ethel Wood: Unit 5

5.6 Agricultural Production Regions
5.7 Spatial Organization of Agriculture
5.8  Von Thünen Model
5.9   The Global System of Agriculture

Objectives

Activities

  • Explain how economic forces influence agricultural practices.

  • Explain how economic forces influence agricultural practices.

  • Describe how the Von Thünen model is used to explain patterns of agricultural production at various scales.

  • Explain the interdependence among regions of agricultural production and consumption.

5.10  Consequences of Agricultural Practices
5.11  Challenges of Contemporary Agriculture
5.12  Women in Agriculture

Objectives

Activities

  • Explain how agricultural practices have environmental and societal consequences.

  • Explain challenges and debates related to the changing nature of contemporary agriculture and food-production practices.

  • Explain geographic variations in female roles in food production and consumption.

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