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Agriculture
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The mode of livelihood that involves growing crops with the use of plowing irrigation and fertilizer.
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Economic System
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The linked processes of livelihood, consumption, and exchange
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Extensive Strategy
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A form of livelihood involving temporary use of large areas of land and a high degree of spatial mobility
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Family Farming
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A form of agriculture in which farmers produce mainly to support themselves but also produce for sale in the market system
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Food Security
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Ability of an individual, household, group or country to obtain adequate diet over time in order to sustain health
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Horticulture
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A mode of livelihood based on growing domesticated crops and gardens for one's own the use
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Industrial Capital Agriculture
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A form of agriculture that is capital intensive, substituting machinery and purchased inputs for human and animal labor
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Industrialism
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A mode of livelihood in which goods are produced Snowmass employment in business and commercial operations and through the creation and movement of information through electronic media
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Informal sector
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Work that is not officially registered and sometimes illegal
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Intensive strategy
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A form of livelihood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources
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Mode of livelihood
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The dominant way of making a living in a culture
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Pastoralism
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A mode of livelihood based on keeping domesticated animals and using their products such as meat and milk for most of the diet
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Use rights
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A system of property relations in which a person or group has socially recognized priority and access to particular resources
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Balanced exchange
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A system oftransfers in which the goal is either immediate or eventual equality in value
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Cash crop
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A plant grown primarily for sale rather than one's own use
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