Agriculture Course Works Samples For Students

Step 1 Focus. The teacher will ask students to evaluate how people reform physical environments with agriculture. The teacher will state the lesson objective: to understand that changing the environment to has many potential positive and negative effects. Some of these are intentional, some unforeseen. Then the teacher will use the historical events to show how similar influences are taking place in the United States today.

Step 2 Input. The teacher will review the five themes of geography, standard of living indicators, economic systems and infrastructures, and introduce the physical geography of former civilized agricultural center that supported ...

- The intra-industry trade index analysis has been done for many years, the latest being 2008. With regards to overall manufacturing, Japan, Germany and Canada had an index of 53.7, 77.2 and 75.6 respectively. With regards to machinery and equipment, Japan, Germany and Canada had an index of 66.3, 76.2 and 67.5 respectively. With regards to transport equipment, Japan, Germany and Canada had an index of 24.8, 67.1 and 93.4 respectively. For the three industries, Japan achieved prominently low indices when compared to Germany and Canada. By these indicators, the statistics show that Japan was lagging behind in the ...

Agricultural Biotechnology

The field of agricultural biotechnology is mainly a collection of scientific techniques that are used to improve plants, animals and microorganisms. Agricultural biotechnology has many environmental and social impacts. Scientists constantly work on developing solutions to increase agricultural productivity based on the understanding of DNA. As expected, the issues associated with agricultural biotechnology are complex and varied. The complexities of this field arise from the creation and management of science, the intellectual property rights, public and private research interactions, safety concerns, marketing of products and the economic factors influencing industries participating in agricultural biotechnology (Carpenter J, 2001).
Different countries ...

Agriculture has been a part of man’s life ever since it was discovered that we could grow the food that we consume from one place and not just leave every time our resources were utilized. As science and technology progress together with agriculture, we came to realize that we could actually manipulate things like environment, amount of water, the type of soil, etc. in order to gain more crops.

The United States, as one of the top developed countries in the world, developed several techniques to which will give the highest benefit without harming our environment. These include crop ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

The present method used for controlling temperature in the greenhouse is by the use of ventilation. This ventilation entails of the restoration of the air inside the greenhouse. It involves natural ventilation that has lateral windows that are opened to allow fresh air to enter inside the greenhouse refreshing the entire internal atmosphere. This is operated manually. Also forced ventilation are used where the fans are used to vary the temperature by moving it. The constant movement of the fans inside the greenhouse keeps refreshing air inside. Another method employed is regulation is by employment of the ...

1. What does Appleby argue was different about global capitalism in the last quarter of the 19th century than the previous 300 years?

According to Appleby, capitalism is not just a result of actions, rather a result of a capitalist mentality. The author argues that even though capitalists existed 300 years back, the overall global attitude towards capitalism did not prevail. Focussing on England itself, she states that up to 300 years back, when capitalism was non-existent, up to 80 percent of the total population was engaged in agriculture. It was only after the innovations and new agriculture techniques came that there was seen a drastic fall in the agriculture labour. The surplus labour hence was absorbed in other manufacturing practices. The other difference that can ...

An ecosystem refers to components such as living organisms and their nonliving elements, which interact in a system (Richardson, 2009, p.5). Ecosystems sustain life through the provision of crucial ecological services such as the conservation of genetic resources, protection of coastlines, and absorption of pollution (Pastor, 2008, p.19)s. Examples of ecosystems of the earth include mountains, forests, deserts, freshwater wetlands, regional seas, oceans, and mangroves and estuaries. Each of these ecosystems occupies a significant space of the earth’s surface; for example, mountain ecosystems occupy approximately 20 percent of the earth’s surface. The current health of ecosystems, however, differs ...

Categories of Risks in Supply Chains and the Common Management Tactics

The blooming demand of goods with very short life cycles, the increased global competition in the market, and the increased customer expectations, become some of the major factors that continuously compel businesses to increase their investments and concentration towards their supply chains. Additionally, supply chains depict a continued growth in the recent past, due to the increased need to satisfy the heightened demand of goods in the global markets. Often, complexities commonly found in integrated supply chains form the major reason as to why their smooth control becomes difficult due to reduced visibility into the process. Consequently, the supply ...

1.It is true that agriculture has been one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind due to the impacts it has brought to the world. Due to the competition between humans and animals agriculture has brought dependence and food security against the ever diminishing natural resources. Agriculture led to the invention of fire that has had substantial positive effects on the human livelihood in terms of domestication and other uses of fire. The invention of transport and communication means has also had big and positive impacts on the human life to a bigger magnitude. These inventions have enabled ...

In the context of modern internal system, the history of relations between countries was basically based on the dependence of countries on the agriculture as a tool of wealth creation. The countries therefore depended on each other for production of specific agricultural commodities in order to sustain their economic activities. In the end of eighteenth century, certain distinct prominent features of modern international system were clearly elaborated with help of alternate groups of peace among people. Over the years war has been prevalent all through making it a prominent feature of the modern international system. The characteristics of this system have ...

Principal regions of the North American continent and the human adaptations that made social life possible in each of them

Like the other natives elsewhere, natives in North America practiced food gathering techniques, shifting seasonal subsistence and altering their diets in various regions for adaptation. The Indians in Atlanta region created open area's brushy edge habitats in the southern forests which attracted deer and other animals to better defined hunting grounds. In the forests, they used fire to drive certain game and deer in good areas where animals could easily be dispatched. Others in lower grounds had well defined agricultural grounds and hunting territories which they forcefully defended against intrusion.

In Carolina for instance, the natives greatly believed ...

HUM1500 W3 Discussion Question: What major world events contributed to the founding of Rome? & What was significant about the Roman government that allowed it to flourish?

One of the major events that contributed to the founding of Rome is through a mythological account. In 753, Rome was named after its founder – Romulus, a historical figure that killed his half-god twin Remus . During the time of Romulus, the place has little interruptions. Another major event to the founding of Rome is the creation of the 12-month calendar by King Pompilius, emergence of the republics and empires, embracement of Christianity (specifically, Roman Catholicism), Roman alphabet and numerals, existence of huge variety of talented/gifted individuals, and so on. Moreover, other major events were associated with the Roman government. There ...

With the world population expected to hit the 9 billion mark by the year 2050, food production and security have become major issues of concern in social circles, both locally and internationally. As a way of responding to the ever decreasing ratio between the population and the viable arable land, the US government has come up with various strategies aimed at improving plenty supply of food for the American citizenry. The most notable examples of such strategies are the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the steady supply of fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. These two approaches, coupled with ...

In the Eugene post office are two 6’×15’ murals covering the North and South ends of the post office Lobby. The two murals feature agriculture and lumbering which are some of the major local industries in the country. The mural on agriculture illustrates farmers in various activities; some transporting, others packing the harvests in bags. The other mural depicting lumbering shows individuals in activity sawing trees and working with timber.

There a general sense of activity and hard work among the people portrayed. The work does not seem to employ much technology implying it is a little historical. The ...

Postnote Briefing Paper

The Issue: To achieve balance between agricultural intensification associated with production of food and environmental protection.

Objective: Assess the implications of land sparing and agricultural intensification. Develop comprehensive strategy for land and biodiversity protection in the framework of two approaches outlined.

Executive Summary:

The current postnote briefing paper addresses the topical issue of biodiversity protection when effectuating agricultural activity in the UK. For the purposes of the current paper, a conceptual model demonstrating detailed structure of the paper was outlined. Two agricultural approaches were considered: land sparing and agricultural intensification. The two approaches were evaluated; potential costs and benefits of these approaches ...

Introduction

There are several theories that seek to explain the abilities, behaviors and skills of individuals in different stages of their life. They include the psychosocial, biosocial and the cognitive theories of growth and development. They propose the expected behavior of an individual at the different stages of their life. Naturalistic observation is one of the ways that researchers employ to support the external validity of various research findings. The researchers embark on the study of a certain behavior as it occurs in its natural behavior. To ensure the validity of the results, the researchers should neither interrupt nor manipulate the ...

South Africa

South Africa is one of the esteemed and has been projected for growth in the African continent. The Republic of South Africa is geographically located at the southern part of the vast Africa content neighbored by Swaziland and Mozambique to the east and Zimbabwe Namibia and Botswana to the north. Its coastline extends along the Indian oceans and the south Atlantic. On estimation, it measures approximately 2798 kilometers. The country measures an area of about 1,221,037 square kilometers (Feinstein, 2005). According to the national statistics, the country had a population of 52,981,991 citizens and ranked as ...

- Suleiman the magnificent:

Suleiman the Magnificent is a Muslim legendary sultan known to be the most successful ottoman ruler. He was the longest reigning sultan among the Ottoman Empire and lived to the age of 72 having reigned from 1520-1566. He steered the Empire to a great height when he extended it to cover up to the Balkans, Gates of Vienna and Hungary. He was viewed as a Muslim religious leader and a ruler for the Muslims in the territory where Islam was the only religion.

Suleiman the Magnificent was a shrewd leader who grew to be an iconic element to date. His relevance today is most ...

Introduction to environmental studies

Three integrated elements of sustainability
The three integrated sustainability elements include the social, environmental and economic elements. They are identified to be interconnected.

What is an example of an initiative or decision that benefits people, the environment, and economic growth?

Some of the core items that are core in the environment include air and water. Careful purification of water and air is an initiative that is a beneficiary to the economic and environmental growth.

Population growth

How many people are currently on the planet?
According to United Nations statistics, the world population is approximately 7.04billion
What is the single most significant discovery/change in humanity’s way of living on the planet that has sparked the exponential ...

Forewords

Water sustainability is a crucial issue in Nigeria as well as in other developing countries. The significant issues of water sustainability in Nigeria include many factors as desertification; the depletion of critical wetlands, forests and vegetation covers at a fast rate. In addition, it includes the pollution of water sources from point sources such as industrial effluent and urban domestic wastes; unregulated utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes. There is also an issue of unavailability of portable water for citizens in most parts of the country particularly those in the rural areas and so forth (Ajai). These water sustainability issues are ...

Impacts of Petroleum Exploration, Extraction and Transport

Oil shale may be defined as those rocks that usually contain a high proportion and percentage of organic matter such as kerogen. Oil shale is mainly characterized by the low calorific value as well high ash and even mineral content. Oil usually produces energy, which serves a very crucial purpose to our planet. Energy is regarded as the lifeblood of the planet earth and its occupants, thereby, being categorized as among the essential commodities that normally powers the intentions to expand the global economy (Burnham, Stubblefield, & Campbell, 1980). In the 1950s, natural gas and oil became the primary sources of liveliness ...

Which set of factors has been more important in driving globalisation in the last fifty years, technology or international trade liberalisation agreements? Use specific examples in your answer.

Introduction

Globalisation in a sentence can be defined as the growing interdependence of the world economies. It is a continuous process and is not the final outcome, and due to globalisation the world economies become dependent on each other culturally and economically (Friedman, 2006). This term was first used by an American economist Theodore Levitt in the year 1983 (Stiglitz, 2007). The main factors that drive the globalisation process can be removal and reduction ...

The organic industry is amongst the fastest ever growing sectors in the United States. Organics have increased at a rate of almost twenty percent in the last couple of years and it is expected to maintain a steady growth. The following aspects constitute the trends of organic farming in detailed perspective.

Production

The amount of organic production has increased over the previous years. The Organic Production Survey of 2008 points that 4.1 million acres in the United States are used for organic production. This acreage divided into 1.8 million acres for organic pasture and 1.6 million acres for organic crops. In 2008, ...

Several geographic and environmental factors play significant roles in shaping trade and commerce. A nations’ development relies on these factors to ensure sustainability and in most cases these environmental factors affect human migration and settlement. Migration patterns and networks allow societies of different backgrounds to interact and create new communities amongst themselves. Ancient civilizations such Mesopotamia and Egypt experienced similar developments based on the environment. The United States too could attribute its development in trade and commerce due to geographical factors such as location and climate. This research evaluates the impact of these two environmental factors on the development ...

Transnational Social Movement Organizations (TSMO) is a generic, umbrella term referring to civil society entities and networks espousing socioeconomic, cultural or political issues with a global viewpoint and with a strong equity imperative. The TSMOs typically work in consort with like-minded organizations, leverage support from multiple constituencies, address complex issues, and their support base usually transcends national boundaries. Operating at multiple levels, their targets typically include national governments, multinational corporations, international agencies and regulatory forums. (Pellow 92) The birth of transnational social movements has its theoretical underpinnings in the sociological ‘conflict perspective’ that causally links the development disparities (the so-called North-South divide) within ...

The New England Colonies comprise the modern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The New England region did not enjoy the same diversity, as did the Middle Colonies to their south. In Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony was one of the earliest colonies, settled by the British Pilgrims in 1620. The tensions created by the role of theocracy, status, wealth, land led Rodger Williams to establish Providence, and began the settlement Rhode Island. Other settlements in Connecticut, including Wethersfield and New Haven were established in a like manner, and for much the same reasons.

The Middle Colonies ...

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MUMFORD, Tex. — Across the parched American West, the long drought has set off a series of fierce legal and political battles over who controls an increasingly dear treasure — water.

Just outside this minuscule farm town, Frank DeStefano was feeding a 500-acre cotton crop with water from the Brazos River 16 months ago when state regulators told ...

- In March 1766, Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament to affirm the Parliament’s right to pass laws in their colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. This news of repealing gave colonists confidence that British government respected and understood their situation regarding taxes. Few appreciated and recognized the claim of Parliament in passing laws “in all cases whatsoever” through the Declaratory Act.
- Colonists wanted to be represented in the Parliament by some one of their own, whereas policies of British were determined by a sole leader. Apart from the colonial legislatures, mobs in many cities demonstrated ...

Despite the status of a prosperous country and an economic superpower, America cannot boast that all, without exception, Americans warmed by the rays of this success. You are probably familiar with the official statistics at the end of 2012 the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States reported that in 2011 approximately 38. 200 million Americans suffered from the lack of food. This number includes 24,300 million adults (i.e. 11.3% of the total US adult population) and 13.9 million children (19% of all American children).

Government officials call this category of Americans food insecure. Of course, this is not ...

Comparative advantage refers to an economic situation to produce a good at the lowest opportunity cost. Here the trade exchange between China and USA shows how the Law of Comparative holds in real world. With the amount of trade taking place between two countries, the law holds that these trading partners are promoting their self interests by producing the goods for which they have low opportunity cost and trading another good for which they have high opportunity cost(CFA Institute 376).

Since USA and China have low opportunity cost to produce agricultural goods and machinery respectively. These countries are involved ...

Introduction

Arable soil can be described as soil tilled or ploughed regularly, usually under a crop rotation system. It is also an agricultural soil that is filled by crops sown as well as harvested in a similar agricultural year, at times over one time. Soil can as well be regarded as arable if it is utilized as temporary hayfields for pasture or mowing, kitchen and market gardens, and temporary fallow land. This means that this kind of soil is not sown for one or more seasons of growing, but it is not left to lie idle for over five years. Arable soil ...

America is a magnificent and influential country. However, has it always been that way? Of course not. When one of most influential politicians of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, died, the country began to literally fall apart, and the entire world thought that the whole experiment called “democracy” failed. Just the few people believed that it was the beginning of something bigger. America was about to meet its most outstanding personalities, who turned the country, and made it better. Certainly, everyone came across such names as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford. The Industrialization era is the time of the most ...

Executive Summary

This project report gives chronological accounts of tornadoes events that have occurred over a period of 33 years, which is from 1980 to 2013. The paper is meant to illustrate statistical analysis of spatial and temporal occurrences of the mentioned environmental disaster. The rationale of the study was to give reasons behind the high instances of tornado related events and to formulate recommendations on how to predict the occurrences to reduce casualties and damage to property. Again, the analysis would build the foundation for modeling of future changes of a natural disaster with the aim of enhancing communication and disaster preparedness. ...

According to an expert opinion, spending of up to $5 Trillion can be cut in the federal budget by reducing the amount of discretionary spending. The major overhauls can be done in the medical field. There is also a need of 2010 health care reforms.
Similarly, there is also a lot of military spending that is being done due to the USA fighting wars in various countries. There is a lot of money going in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. It is better that the USA stops a lot of spending in such countries because it is like a suicide attack on their ...

Section 6

According to Silberstein and Joyce, avocado oil is the best oil for cooking because it has the highest smoke point, which means it does not develop unhealthy toxins at high temperatures (“Oils and Butter”). However, they fail to mention that avocado oil is stable at high temperatures only when it is refined while virgin oils usually have a smoke point lower than 400°F (Eyres, Sherpa, and Hendriks 87). With that in mind, I doubt I would make a transition to the recommended oils because even though refining those oils filters some impurities, a lot of nutrients are lost in the ...

Introduction

Afrocentrism requires that we examine aspects of African culture from an African perspective. Professor Molefi Keta Asante argues that the purpose of Afrocentrism is to “encourage black nationalism and ethnic pride as a psychological weapon against destructive and depilating effects of universal racism”. By extension, Afro centrism offers an alternative view of the world that analyzes the popular western view proposed by European scholars. Although the premise of Afrocentric ideas is the argument the genesis of civilization from Egypt was a black civilization, it also proposes for the reexamination of some of the traditions and way of life of traditional ...

Introduction

The postclassical countries are the countries that have undergone the classical stage whereby they have developed in economical perspective. The postclassical countries, these countries include India, Greece/Rome and china. They are the countries s after the classical for example the countries that come after the classical were characterized by the technological advancement. Byzantium and Abbasid were among the postclassical countries, which are characterized by the modernization in the economical perspective, the use of machinery in production and a rather more advanced technology.

Greece followed Rome and Rome itself followed the Byzantium that latter changed and founded the Russia. China being ...

Evaluate the costs and benefits (both economically and socially) of using coal, oil, and natural gas. In your evaluation provide pros and cons for which each energy source
The cost and benefits of using coal, oil, and natural gas is that they are less costly and efficient in their use in comparison with other sources of energy such as firewood.

The pros of using coal, oil, and natural gas include the following;

The pros of using coal are that it produces large quantities by products such as petroleum and gases. The cons of using coal are that it ...

1. Discuss the reality and significance of the Civil War in U.S. history. What were the factors that led to the outbreak of war? What were the long-term consequences of the conflict? Discuss Lincoln s role. What did emancipation mean to both sides in the war?

The reality of the US Civil War lies with the then economic and social differences between the Northern and Southern parts of the US, where Northern Federal states, grew industrialized, welcoming new cultures, while the Southern confederate states maintained an antiquated social order, and agriculture, utilizing the slaves in their farms. These socio ...

Question one

Slavery was a profitable business between 1500 and 1900. People from other continents such as Africa and Latin America were captured forcefully and transported to be sold in America or other places. These people would be enslaved and forced to work in industrial firms, cash crop farms and even as household employees. Latin American nations such as Brazil and Cuba became the target grounds where slaves were captured. These people started resisting this degrading activity. This was the start of the journey to the abolition of lave trade. The manner in which slave trade was abolished in different countries was ...

Several institutions developed in both France and England in the 13 and 14th century and these institutions were behind the civilization of western countries. The first institution was the church. Many crusades were made in these countries facilitating the spread of Christianity. When church became an institution in these countries, leadership became a major issue and specifically the catholic leaders became too much involved in political affairs. They controlled monarchy in England that had a lot of power (Noble, 156).

Schools are some of the other institutions that were very important during the period. Many people got their education during the ...

1. In terms of both subsistence and settlement behavior, it is true to say that the people of the archaeological Berrien phase and the historic Potawatomi appear to have adapted to the southwestern Michigan landscape is much the same way because prior to being forced out to Wisconsin, they seem to have been pro – Potawatomi.

2. According to Ron Mason, pottery very much like Berrien phase ceramics from sites in southwestern Michigan can be associated with the historically documented Potawatomi occupation of the Rock Island II site on an island in the mouth of Green Bay during the ...

1. The term Share cropping refers to an agricultural system of sharing the land between landlord and tenant wherein landlord permits tenant or a farmer to use his land in lieu of a certain percentage of the crop production on the shared land. This system was widely practiced during the era of civil war in America and the main reason of this system was abolition of slavery in southern parts of America. Once slavery was eliminated, it became difficult for landlords to continue the cotton plantation. They had huge amount of land but the laborers were not available to work in ...

Regional Disparities in UK

UK has been affected by various socio-economic changes since a last few years this is the reason why regional disparities exist in this country. Martin (1997) explains in his book that there are certain disparities that exist among and within British regions with regards to productivity, wages, per capita income, employment participation rates as well as unemployment rates. Within UK the per capita GDP is highest in London which is £34,200 and lowest in South East England that is approximately £15,621. (Martin R., 1997. Regional unemployment disparities and their dynamics, Regional Studies 31(3), pp.237-252)

UK ...

Abstract

This paper reports on ethics, ethical issues in the society branches of ethics and the role of ethics in the society. It goes ahead and narrows down on business ethics. This is done by defining what business ethics is giving concrete examples and showing how they affect the stakeholders in a given enterprise. Finally, it commends on various ways through which these issues can be curbed in order to arrive at a healthy business environment.
According to Blackburn, S. (2001) The Term ethics refers to a branch of philosophy which studies morality -explaining what is right and wrong, justice and crime, ...

1) In what ways did American culture become more democratic in the early nineteenth century? How did the social and political status of women and African Americans change in relation to the status of white males?

American culture became democratic after 19th century because in the past the whites, and males were the only who owned property and be leaders in the society. Early 19th century was a year of revolution where the vi9ews of everyone were going to be considered. Voting rights also changed from the property owners and included everyone. An increasingly famous form of social and politics ...

Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in South Africa

Introduction
Rift Valley Fever (RFV) is viral disease that affects animals but can be transmitted from animals to human beings. To be more precise, it is a zoonotic arthropod-borne germ that leads to stern mortality and morbidity in both livestock and human beings. It is usually spread by Culex or Aedes mosquitoes. The disease was first discovered in Kenya around Lake Naivasha in 1915 following deaths of many sheep in a farm. According to the studies that were undertaken during this period, it was discovered that the disease was originated from a virus that infected goats, sheep and cattle as well ...

My Career Choices: Economist or Accountant

It is important when choosing a career path that one chooses carefully before committing to any life-altering plans. This is, in part, due to the increased need for qualifications and education before one is eligible to enter a specific career path meaning that if upon embarking on such a path, the individual finds that they do not like the choices they have made then they have wasted a lot of time, money and energy in pursuing it. Therefore, to avoid this fate, I will be exploring two particular career paths that are of interest to me and investigating what the work involves, the ...

Water Resource Issues

Water resources refer to the sources of water that are harnessed by human beings for household purposes, agricultural, industrial use, recreational facilities like swimming pools and eventually for environmental activities. Besides human beings, all other forms of life on planet earth are entirely supported by the use of water. Out of all the water on planet earth, 97% is salty water while 3% is fresh water (Pearce, 2006). Examples of water resources include lakes, oceans, rivers, seas, ponds, and dams. What needs to be understood is that most of the human uses of water require fresh water.
There ...

Water Resource Plan

Water is the major fundamental element for the existence of all life forms. Water has a molecule that is composed of one atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen. It exists in three different states: gaseous state, solid state and liquid state. It is mostly in its liquid state and it is mainly found in large water bodies such as lakes, oceans, seas, rivers, dams, and ponds. Clean water is vital for the survival of life be it for animals, human or even plants. Due to its function as a universal solvent, water has a major role in the world economy ...