This document summarizes different types of farming systems around the world:
1) Traditional/subsistence agriculture is practiced in underdeveloped countries using simple techniques like burning and sowing, with a focus on self-consumption and communal ownership.
2) Plantation and industrial agriculture are speculative and use intensive techniques, a single crop, wage laborers and private ownership to produce for profit.
3) Commercial agriculture produces crops tailored to market demands, using both intensive and extensive techniques across oceanic and mediterranean regions for profit.
3. The TRADITIONAL farming system
Also called SUBSISTENCE agriculture.
1/5 of world agriculture.
Hunting, fruit gathering, nomadic agriculture (these 3
rare nowadays) or animal husbandry are also part of
traditional farming.
21. INDUSTRIAL FARMING
This is also SPECULATIVE farming. In fact,
it’s simmilar to PLANTATION farming, but
instead of using extensive techniques, they
use INTENSIVE ones.
29. Commercial farming
Farming type specialised in certain crops as dictated by
prices and profits. Also called MARKET farming.
It’s divided in 2 regions:
The ATLANTIC region
(where climate is Oceanic)
The MEDITERRANEAN region
(where climate is Mediterranean)
30. Techniques / Crop diversity
Both INTENSIVE and EXTENSIVE
Mostly SINGLE-CROP