Explain - The Move from Subsistance to Commerical Agriculture or The Second Agricultural Revolution: AP HG B: AP Human Geo B (67220)

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• Agricultural production regions

• are defined by the extent to which they reflect subsistence or commercial practices, or intensive or extensive use of land.

• the majority of farmers in the developing world are subsistence farmers.

• Subsistence farming

• the farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families

• mostly for local requirements with little or no surplus for economic opportunities or trade

• are usually very small with diverse types of food raised.

• commercial farming

• farming for the purpose of excess

• they are usually very large and specialized on one type of product

• participating in commerce

• agribusiness

• the full circle of food production which includes the farmers, processors, distributors and retailers

• Vertical integration

• when one company owns all the parts to agribusiness,

• Tyson chicken controls the hatcheries, coops, and even oversees housing and transportation incentives for employees.

• Second Agricultural Revolution

• shift from small-scale to mass-production and a rapid increase of inventions from the 1800s to the 1900s

• one of the three main paradigm shifts (revolutions) in agriculture.

• Before the Second Agricultural Revolution, most people farmed the same way - very labor intensive and mostly subsistence (just enough for their own family)