Reading:

• Rubenstein Chapter 9: Development [Key Issues 1-4]

• Rubenstein Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture [Key Issue 4]

 

Outcomes

A. Origins and spread of agriculture

1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

2. 2nd Agricultural Revolution

3. Green Revolution

4. Commercial Agriculture

B. Major Agricultural Regions

1. Major bioclimatic zones

2. Linkages and flow of products

3. Effects of markets

C. Rural land use/settlement patterns
1. Land use models (including the von Thunen model)

2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types

3. Desertification/deforestation

D. Commercial agriculture

1. Science and agriculture

2. Organization/diffusion of industrial agriculture

3. Organic farming

4. Environmental impact of agriculture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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