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Title: What is Agriculture?


1
What is Agriculture?
  • Christopher Large, Alec Stoll, Tori Talbot, Amber
    Amin, Niki Ang

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Agriculture
  • The simplification of natures food webs
  • The rechanneling of energy for human planting and
    animal consumption
  • Agriculture disrupts the food web
  • Plants protected for human consumption

3
Crop Types
  • Sustainable
  • Use ecological principles to farm
  • Slash and Burn
  • Most unsustainable farming practice
  • Conventional
  • Commonly practiced in United States

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Sustainable
  • Uses agro-ecology which is the study of the
    relationships between organisms and the
    environment
  • Maintaining the natural environment and using
    ecological principles
  • Reduces soil erosion
  • Eliminates need to use insecticides
  • Diversity is maintained and increased over time

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Slash and Burn
  • Occurs in rain forests where the soil is poor in
    nutrients
  • Degrades the soil
  • Involves cutting and burning forests to clear
    fields
  • Vegetation can repeatedly grow vigorously on the
    site afterwards

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Conventional
  • Modern farming that industrializes production of
    livestock, crops, fish and poultry.
  • Can lead to soil erosion and plant vulnerability
    to disease
  • Pesticides and insecticides used are harmful to
    the environment
  • Mass production is effective with the growing
    population of today
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