Do Now: Tuesday 4/27 What is the relationship between agriculture and development? What does agriculture look like in LDCs vs. MDCs? Why? No direct quotes. One sentence answers to each question. How does your map explain your main concept?

Do Now: 5/6 Pick up the worksheet and a slip and take your seat On the back of your handout, write your product, and briefly answer the following questions: How much land would be needed to produce this? How urgent is it to get your product to market? How expensive is it to transport your product to market? How profitable is your product? (cost to produce vs. price on the market) How do these questions influence where you would situate your production?

Von Thunen land-use model that explains the cost-to-distance relationship in agricultural land use around a city based on how labor-intensive type of crop/product variables: rent (cost of land), shelf life, rivers, value of crop

Village Central City von Thunen is a central-place model biggest market high rent land is scarce

Labor-Intensive Crop land cost is high high profitability transportation cost low crops that require constant weeding fragile plants (herbs) picked and then rushed to market animals produce perishable items

Managed Forest Why put a forest here? think of the transportation cost lumber is renewable resource

Labor-Extensive Crops low-maintenance (plant and harvest) need a lot of land no rush to market - can be stored

Grazing least labor-intensive herds of cattle / sheep need lots of land - animals roam the hills

Land Rent Curve cost-to-distance

Application transportation costs as main variable other variables: edge cities, rivers, geographic obstacles

Summary In 1 sentence, summarize how the von Thunen model explains land use around cities.

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Tomatoes Corn Dairy products Wheat Strawberries Potatoes Intensive or Extensive?

Exit Ticket What is the relationship between agriculture and development? What does agriculture look like in LDCs vs. MDCs? Why?