AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.9 The Global System of Agriculture
Notes
Agriculture is global: food is traded worldwide, influenced by trade agreements, subsidies, cash crops, and food deserts at local scales.
- Fair trade aims to pay farmers better.
Practice
A crop grown mainly for sale, often for export:
Grown for money.
Government subsidies to farmers in rich countries can:
Cheap exports.
Fair trade programs try to:
Ethical sourcing.
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