1. Agricultural Regions in LDCs
Key issues 2 and 4

2. Physical Geography …for a moment
Tropics, Mid-latitude, High-latitude regions
High Latitudes
Polar Regions
Temperate Zones
Middle latitudes
Tropics
Low latitudes
Temperate Zones
Middle latitudes
Polar Regions
High Latitudes

3. Four Main Regions Shifting cultivation Pastoral Nomadism
Humid, low-latitude, high temp and rainfall
Pastoral Nomadism
Dry climates where crops are imposible
Intensive Subsitence Agriculture
Densely populated areas – particularly Asia
Plantation Farming
Tropics and subtropics
Specifically Latin America, Africa and Asia

4. Percent of Labor Force Engaged in Agriculture

5. Farmland Per Tractor

6. Now Compare

7. Challenges for Subsistence Farmers
What is the birth rate like in LDCs?
Farmers need to consider new farming approaches
“Population growth influences the distribution of types of subsistence farming” –ESTER BOSERUP
How?
New farming methods
Land left fallow for shorter periods
Boserups’s five stages to the intensification of farmland – p. 334

8. Challenges for Subsistence Farmers
The International Trade Model of Development (ch. 9)
“A country can develop economically by concentrating scarce resources on expansion of its distinctive local industries.”
Countries should focus on what they can produce for a higher quality and less price than any other country
Funds made by this can help the country develop in other ways
In order to do this, LDCs need to use better everything
Sell crops and other stuff to MDCs

9. Challenges for Subsistence Farmers
Drug Crops
Particularly Latin America and Asia
They aren’t selling DRUGS, they are selling crops that can be turned INTO drugs 
Cocaine and Heroine
Afghanistan produces about 80% of the world’s opium
Columbia grows half of the world’s coca leaf
Most marijuana in the U.S. comes from Mexico

10. Agricultural Regions in MDCs
Key Issues 3 and 4

11. Six Main Regions Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming Dairy Farming
U.S.
Corn
Dairy Farming
Farms near large urban areas of NE U.S., SE Canada and Northern Europe
Grain Farming
Wheat
Livestock Ranching
Mediterranean Agriculture
Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming

12. Corn Production

13. Milk Production

14. Wheat Production

15. Meat Production

16. Challenges for Commercial Farmers
Lets talk about supply and demand!

17. Challenges for Commercial Farmers
Access to markets
Overproduction
This is where subsidies come in, but we will talk more about this later
Sustainable Agriculture
An agricultural practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality
Lower revenue but lower costs
Organic farming
Three principles:
Sensitive land management
Limited use of chemicals
Better integration of crops and livestock