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| referring to the culture of agricultural communities and the type of tenure system that determines access to land and the kind of cultivation practices employed there |
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| a set of economic and political relationships that organizes agro-food production from the development of seeds to the retailing and consumption of the agricultural product |
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| Agricultural Industrialization |
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| process whereby the farm has moved from being the centerpiece of agricultural production to becoming one part of an integrated string of vertically organized industrial processes including production, storage, processing, distribution, marketing, and retailing |
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| a science, art, and business directed at the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance and profit |
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| technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve plants and animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses |
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| farming primarily for sale, not directly consumption |
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| method of maintaining soil fertility in which the fields under cultivation remain the same but the crop being planted is changed |
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| acute starvation associated with a sharp increase in mortality |
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| edibles that can be prepared and served very quickly, sold in a restaurant, and served to customers in packaged form |
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| assured access by a person, household, or even a country to enough food at all times to ensure active and healthy lives |
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| rights of peoples, communities, and countries to define their own agricultural, labor, fishing, food, and land policies that are ecologically, socially, economically, and culturally appropriate to their unique circumstances |
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| activities whereby people feed themselves through killing wild animals and fish and gathering fruits, roots, nuts, and other edible plants to sustain themselves |
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| food that is organically grown and produced within a fairly limited distance from where it is consumed |
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| the condition that develops when the body does not get the right amount of the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients it needs to maintain healthy tissues and organ function |
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| farming or animal husbandry done without commercial fertilizers, synthetic pesticides, or growth hormones |
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| subsistence activity that involves the breeding and herding of animals to satisfy the human needs of food, shelter, and clothing |
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| system in which farmers aim to maintain soil fertility by rotating the fields within which cultivation occurs |
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| system of cultivation in which plants are cropped close to the ground, left to dry for a period, and then ignited |
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| attempt to resist fast food by preserving the cultural cuisine and the associated food and farming of an ecoregion |
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| farming for direct consumption by the producers; not for sale |
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| Urban Agriculture (Peri-urban Agriculture) |
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| establishment or performance of agricultural practices in or near an urban or citylike setting |
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