1. Factors Affecting World Agriculture Structure Chapter 3

2. ADAPTION Factors Affecting World Agriculture Structure

3. Adaption Sum of the adjustments occurring in an organism that promotes its welfare and favors its survival in a specific environment

4. Symbiotic relationship When organisms live together in a mutually beneficial relationship

5. Natural Environmental Climate, geography, altitude, feed Important: agriculture must always be practiced within its constraints

6. Artificial Environment Factors linked to the economic level and culture of a given society, as well as the steps taken to control the natural environment.

7. Stresses Climatic- Nutritional- Internal- Geographical- Social-

8. Adaptive Changes Morphological Physiological Behavioral

9. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Factors Affecting World Agriculture Structure

10. Influence Has a tremendous influence on what people eat or how people use animals. Example: Animal Rights Movement, Economic Status, etc

11. Religion

12. LEVELS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Factors Affecting World Agriculture Structure

13. Country’s Level of Economic Development Developed Developing

14. Other Terms First World (developed countries with a market economy) Second World (Centrally planned economy) Third World (Developing counties with a market economy)

15. Centrally Planned Economy An economy under government control Price Labor Other economic inputs are controlled and not allowed to fluctuate

16. LEVELS OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Factors Affecting World Agriculture Structure

17. The Levels Developed Subsistence Primative

18. Developed A very small proportion of the total population on the farm actively engage in farming Highly specialized agriculture with each unit producing only one or two products Highly mechanized agriculture with little or no animal or hand labor High per capita income High literacy rate for total population

19. Subsistence Approximately half of the total population engage in farming Each farm family produces roughly what it consumes with only a small surplus for sale or barter Little mechanization and much hand and animal labor Relatively low per capita income for the entire population Relative low literacy rate for the entire population

20. Primitive Almost the entire population involved in producing their own food because no one produces a surplus Generally a scarcity of food and a low nutritional level No mechanization and very little animal power is used in farming Extremely low per capita income for the farm population Very few literate individuals in the farm or non farm population

21. What does Developed Agricultural Industries have present? Financial Institutions Marketing Agencies Industrial Institutions Government Agencies

22. Financial Institution Safe repository of money Safe & orderly (not putting savings into livestock)

23. Marketing Agencies Sell products at satisfactory prices

24. Industrial Institutions A.Provide employment for non farm population B.Wages of those non farm provide a market for agriculture products A.Industrial workers provide consumer good needed in agriculture (gates)

25. Government Agencies Transportation Education Protection