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A process by which poor subsistence farmers are pushed onto fragile, inferior, or marginal lands that cannot support crops for long and that is degraded by cultivation.
A climate occupying the western sides of continents in the higher middle latitudes
A type of economic system in which consumers’ demand determines the production of goods and services. Also called a demand economy or capitalism.
The plan was designed largely by the United States after World War II, by which U.S. aid was focused on the rebuilding of Germany that had been its enemy in the war just concluded.