Types of
Agricultural
Practices
in the World
Activity
What type of
agricultural
activity is
depicted in each
of the slides?
Look each of these concepts up…
• Labor intensive vs. capital
intensive?
• Intensive vs extensive land
use?
• Commercial vs.
subsistence?
• Sedentary vs. nomadic?
• Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
• Labor/people vs
money
• Lots of
land/machines/capit
al vs little land
• Profit vs hand-tomouth
• Stay put vs moving
with herd
(transhumance)
• System of watering,
mechanical or other
vs not
Cattle
Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Wheat
Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Rice
Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Bananas
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Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Vegetables
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Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Fishing
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Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Pigs
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Labor intensive vs. capital intensive?
Intensive vs extensive land use?
Commercial vs. subsistence?
Sedentary vs. nomadic?
Irrigated vs non-irrigated?
Von Thunen’s View on Land Use
Using Bid Rent Theory
The Von Thünen Model
…applying von Thunen’s
basic assumptions
…von Thunen’s model with
Variations in climate factored
in--the north is colder than the
South.
United States Urban Centers
% Lacking Supermarket Access
Darker region
represents
50%
or more lack
convenience
of
supermarket
Market gardens are close to urban centers.
Agricultural landscape
• In the Eastern Hemisphere fragmented farms are
the rule
– Farmers live in farm villages or hamlets
– Fields are situated at varying distances and directions
from the settlement
– One farm can consist of one hundred or more separate
parcels of land
– In Asia and southern Europe individual plots may be
roughly rectangular
– Narrow strips are most common in Western and central
Europe
Agricultural landscape
• Long-lot farms
– A landholding consisting of a long, narrow
unit-block stretching back from a road, river, or
canal
– Typical in the Canadian maritimes, parts of
Quebec, and parts of Texas.
The township and range system
imposed a rectangular grid on the
landscape.