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Arable land, suitable for cultivation, is vital for food production and economic growth. Protecting and managing it sustainably ensures global food security. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
Domestication transforms plants and animals for human needs, shaping agriculture and society. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
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 Latin American farmer who engages in swidden or shifting cultivation in forest lands.
The single-species cultivation of food or tree crops, usually very economical and productive but threatening to natural diversity and change.
Areas of poor soil in cool, humid portions of the Slavic Coreland, suitable for the cultivation of rye.
A cycle of land use between crop and fallow years is needed to work around tropical soils’ infertility.
A cycle of land use between crop and fallow years is needed to work around the infertility of tropical soils.