UNIT 9: AGRICULTURE

1.- What is agriculture?

1.1.- Agriculture as a system.
2.- Commercial and subsistence farming
2.1.- Commercial farming
2.2.- Subsistence farming
2.3.- Intensive and extensive farming
3.- A large-scale commercial farming system
3.1.- Natural inputs
3.2.- Human inputs
4.- Sustainable development and resource conservation
4.1.- Soil erosion (By wind; by running water)

5.- Small-scale subsistence farming

5.1.- Natural inputs
5.2.- Human inputs
5.3.- Improving subsistence agriculture
6.- Food shortages
6.1.- Green Revolution
6.2.- Causes of food shortages.