Living in the Environment
Living in the Environment
18th Edition
ISBN: 9781133940135
Author: G. Tyler Miller
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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The key concept for Section 12.2. Identify the three systems that supply most of the world’s food. Define and distinguish among irrigation, industrialized agriculture, plantation agriculture, traditional subsistence agriculture, and traditional intensive agriculture. Define polyculture and summarize its benefits. Define organic agriculture and compare its main components with those of conventional industrialized agriculture. Define green revolution. Summarize the story of industrialized food production in the United States.

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