1. Agricultural Geography
C.J. Cox

2. Geographer’s Perspective of World Agriculture
Geographers are interested in the patterns and distribution of agriculture in the world today.
What are the patterns of agriculture worldwide?
Why are agricultural areas distributed in the manner that they are?

3. Agriculture Agri - Latin for field culture - to cultivate
The expanded definition of Agriculture includes the cultivation of plants and animals
The goal of agriculture is produce sufficient food supplies

6. Physical Factors Land/Soil (fertility) Water (precipitation & rivers)
Sun ( temperature, evaporation rates)
Climate

7. Cultural Factors Population Distribution Diet of population
calorie supply, protein, health
Living Material
clothes, houses
Lifestyle/Cultural Tradition
nomadic, sedentary/rain dances
Economics
cash crops with greatest profit ie. viticulture
Government/Political Policies
Argentina wheat, Japan rice

8. Origins of Agriculture
Hunters and gatherers
Invention of agriculture

10. Agricultural Hearth Areas
Indus River in Pakistan
Mesopotamia in Iraq
Huang Ho in China
Nile River in Egypt

11. Agricultural Hearth Areas
Carl O Sauer – Two types of cultivation
Vegetative Planting
Southeast Asia
West Africa
Northwestern South America
Seed Agriculture
western India
northern China
Ethiopia
Southern Mexico
northwestern South America

12. Difference between Subsistence and Commercial Agriculture
Purpose of farming
Percentage of farmers in the labor force
Use of machinery
Farm Size
Relationship of farming to other businesses – Agribusiness

14. Forms of Agriculture Commercial livestock & ranching horticulture
produced for market
mechanized
few laborers
livestock & ranching
horticulture
dairy farming
mixed crop
grain
medditeranean
Subsistence
produced for consumption
work by hand
most people work
shifting agriculture
nomadic herding
rice (intensive subsistence)
plantation agriculture

16. If we lived in this area during the hunting and gathering period what types of plants and animals might we have eaten? Use whatever knowledge of the area you might have or guess if you have to.

30. Caloric intake
most of world’s people have an adequate supply of calories
the five concentrations have a calorie supply called well above adequate -120%
outside of Africa only Haiti and Afghanistan show serious malnutrition
many states in central and east Africa show malnutrition