burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture‚ and of transhumance livestock herding.[1] Older English terms for slash-and-burn include assarting‚ swidden‚ and fire-fallow cultivation. Today the term "slash-and-burn" is mainly associated with tropical rain forests. Slash-and-burn techniques are used by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide.[2][3] In 2004
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Selling Used Technology to Buy the Latest Gadgets It is no secret that many of us keep accumulating phones‚ laptops‚ mp3 players‚ consoles and other gadgets at our homes. It is no secret either that most of us wish to always have the latest products of one of the most fascinating industries: consumer electronics. One way of keeping up with the many releases of our favourite devices without making our bank account suffer is to recover part of the money we invested in products we do not use anymore
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MBAA 604 Activity 1.4 – Case Study 1: Emerging Markets: Brazil’s Quest for Comparative Advantage 1. Why is Brazil’s agriculture so competitive? Why do its manufacturing industries lack competitiveness? ANSWER: Although Brazil’s products within the agricultural market are not rare or hard to imitate‚ its industry is able to produce more using a fraction of the resources compared to other countries‚ all while still maintaining a high standard of quality. This allows Brazil to become the world’s
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DIPLOMA THESIS Linking Climate Change with Food Security in the highlands of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Northwest Pakistan Presented by: Martin Kienzler Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Faculty of Philosophy I Institute of Geography and Geology Physical Geography DIPLOMA THESIS Linking Climate Change with Food Security in the highlands of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Northwest Pakistan Presented by Martin Kienzler‚ born on June‚ 25th 1985 in Titisee-Neustadt to obtain the degree of
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fought through struggles to become as successful as he was. Without help from his close friends and family members‚ he still got through the conflicts life threw at him. Edmund Ruffin‚ a man with a fighting spirit‚ successfully made a huge impact on agriculture alongside history. Ruffin was born on January 5th‚ 1794‚ in Prince George County‚ Virginia. His mother died whilst he was still an infant; although‚ his father‚ George Ruffin‚ remarried a few years later. Growing up without his real mother affected
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Modern Agriculture: Its Effects on the Environment Agriculture has been a major component of the United States economy ever since colonial days‚ when 9 out of 10 working persons were employed on a farm. Produclivity of American agriculture has tripled since then‚ and today only 3 percent of our labor force produces enough food and fiber to meet domestic needs as well as supplying about 10 percent of total overseas consumption. This huge increase in efficiency has been the result of many factors
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Briana Walker 2nd period DBQ In the period 1865-1900‚ technology‚ government policy‚ and economic conditions all changed American agriculture a great deal. New farming machinery had a large role in the late 19th century‚ giving farmers the opportunity to produce a lot more crops than they used to. The railroads had an enormous influence on agriculture. They were able to charge the farmers large fees‚ expenses that farmers barely had enough to cover‚ in order to transport their goods throughout
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following heading: □ Role of Agriculture in an Economy □ Importance of Agriculture □ Analysis of Selected Indicators of Agricultural Growth □ Agricultural Constraints □ Institutional Reforms □ Major agricultural policies in Nigeria from 1960-2005 □ Macro-economic variables affecting economic growth □ Government expenditure □ Investment □ Foreign investment □ The new Nigerian Agricultural Policy 2.0 The role of agriculture in an economy It is
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INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE 1. Some definitions: What is ‘industrial animal agriculture’‚ and what are its properties? What are zoonoses? Industrial animal agriculture is a modern form of intensive farming that uses intensive production lines and is designed to produce the highest output at the lowest cost. Industrial farms use new technology which provides them with high mechanisation‚ speed in production and low labour requirements. The animals in industrial farms are kept usually indoors with
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“Climate-Smart” Agriculture and Moringa Newton K Amaglo‚ PhD Student‚ Hunan Agriculture University‚ Faculty of Food Science and Technology‚ Changsha‚ Hunan. China 410128. Email; amaglonewton@yahoo.com Nov 2012 Introduction There has been a time in history when humans used tens of thousands of vegetables‚ cereals‚ etc but today we rely on just a few cereals. After roughly 10‚000 years of progressive agricultural civilization‚ seventy percent of the world’s food supply comes from just
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