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V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use
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Development and Diffusion of Agriculture
The first topic in Chapter V of the summary outline, the development and diffusion of agriculture, is covered well in most human geography textbooks. The structure of the AP course and most textbooks follows conventional thinking that classifies economic activity into primary, secondary, and tertiary activities. Primary activities are those that are using the resources of the environment directly, such as hunting and gathering, farming, timbering, mining, and fishing.
Major Agricultural Production Regions
There are two things that must be considered when teaching the contemporary regional patterns of agricultural production. One is the relationship between agriculture systems and the climatic zones, and the second is the complicated set of linkages among the production areas and the consumption areas.
Rural Land Use and Change
Further discussion of land use and location models, settlement patterns and the urban-rural connection, and the environmental and social impacts of intensification.
Modern Commercial Agriculture: The Third Agricultural Revolution
The third agricultural revolution, beginning approximately 250 years after the start of the second, has three distinctive features. The first is the removal of the lines distinguishing agriculture as primary, secondary, and tertiary activities. The second distinctive feature of this agricultural revolution is more intensive mechanization. Biotechnology is the third.
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