Concept information
Preferred term
agriculture
Definition(s)
- Agriculture is the practice of cultivating plants and herding animals for food, fiber, and other products. Agriculture is the single largest land use in the world and it is the single greatest employer. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Agriculture]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- agricultural biotechnology
- agricultural intensification
- agricultural land use
- agricultural pests
- agricultural property and income
- agrobiodiversity
- agrochemical pollution
- agrodiversity and seeds
- agroecology
- agroecosystems
- agrofoods
- agroforestry
- agronomy
- Arbor Day
- arid lands
- bananas
- beneficial use doctrine
- biotechnology
- Bureau of Land Management
- bush fallow farming
- cacao
- cash crops
- cattle
- centers of domestication
- collective agriculture
- community gardens
- composting
- crop genetic diversity
- crop plants
- crop rotation
- crossbreeding
- dandelions
- Department of Agriculture
- domestication
- ecological consumers
- environmental impacts of agriculture
- farmers' markets
- farming systems
- farmland conservation
- fish farming
- gardens
- genetically modified organisms
- grazing
- indigenous agriculture
- industrialized agriculture
- integrated pest management
- irrigation
- livestock
- mad cow disease
- marine aquaculture
- mixed farming
- no-till agriculture
- organic agriculture
- parasites
- pastoralism
- pesticide
- plantations
- plants
- potatoes
- precipitation
- preindustrial agriculture
- ranchers
- rice
- salmon
- seasons
- seed bank
- sheep
- shifting cultivation
- smallholders
- soil
- soil science
- sugar
- sustainable agriculture
- terraces and raised fields
- tobacco
- tomato
- United Farm Workers
- urban gardening and agriculture
- wheat
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URI
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