AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.10 Consequences of Agricultural Practices
Notes
- Environmental effects: desertification, soil salinization, deforestation, water pollution, loss of biodiversity.
- Slash-and-burn, terracing, irrigation, pastoral nomadism.
- GMOs and monoculture.
Practice
Overgrazing in dry regions can cause:
Land degrades.
Clearing rainforest to farm is linked to:
Habitat loss.
Monoculture can increase the risk of:
One crop, one disease.
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