PPT-The Evolution of Agriculture

By Frank W Elwell Note This presentation is based on the theory of Ester Boserup as presented in The Conditions of Agricultural Growth A summary of this and other macrosocial theories can be found in . Ms. . Divya. Mohan. Associate Fellow. Earth . Sceince. and Climate Change Division. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Agriculture and Climate Change. Agriculture contributes to climate change through GHG emissions. INdia. 4. th. National Conference on Organic Farming. Creative . Agri. Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 7. th. October, New Delhi. 1. Background. There are very strong views on the organic agriculture sector in India . Neda. . Jafar. jafarn@un.org. Regional Workshop on Linking Population with Agriculture Censuses, Amman, 24-28 June 2012. Contents. Why gender in agriculture. International mandates. Gender and Food Security. Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called. Plantation farming. Hunting and gathering. Subsistence agriculture. Sedentary cultivation. A module of the Globalizing Agriculture Education Project. Module Learning Outcomes . To be able to describe several critical environmental issues related to global agricultural sustainability . To be able to explain and apply these issues in a site-specific context using . Write this somewhere on your sheet. Socioeconomic—. Social or economic factors that affect the lives of average, working people in a country. (I think this gave a lot of you trouble on your FRQ’s). Subsistence (LDC). Shifting Cultivation. Slash-and-burn. Pastoral nomadism. Intensive wet rice and non-rice dominant. Lots of work. Commercial (MDC). Dairy. Grain. Livestock. Mediterranean. Commercial gardening. Potential. , . Constraints . and . National . P. riorities. Ahmed M. Al-. wadaey. Assistant Professor. Soil and Water Department. Sana’a University. Feb 25, 2013. Despite agriculture’s relatively low contribution to GDP(21%), the sector remains the most important element of the efforts to combats poverty and provide employment to the majority of the poor in Yemen . A mechanism for change in populations.. Any change in the . inherited . traits within a population across generations. Individuals better adapted to their environment tend to survive and . produce more offspring. Agriculture is also called farming is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life.. There are fifteen different types of agriculture.. THE MAIN TYPES OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIA. SHIFTING AGRICULTURE / SLASH & BURN / JHUMMING. SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE. EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURE. INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE. PLANTATION AGRICULTURE. MIXED FARMING. Agriculture Unit 5 Agriculture Importance of Agriculture Everyone dependent on food Agriculture occupies more land area than any other econ activity Agriculture employs 45% - almost half of world’s labor (in Africa and Asia over 50% are farmers) Evolution 9/11. Obj. TSW learn form mistakes made on the quiz, and take notes about evolution after the Environmental Science Current Events. P. 34NB. Make a food chain for the following organisms showing the energy arrows and the . . The process by which organism change over time. Based on science, not opinion.. Darwin. :. Evolution is descent with modification. Evolution. :. changes through time. Species accumulate difference.