AP Human Geography Theoretical Model Review Mr. Stepek
Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Characteristics of Agricultural Regions
Von Thunen’s Land Use Model • Spatial organization of agriculture around a market is based on profit which is closely related to the cost of transportation, land the perishability of food. • Bid-rent theory • Intensive vs. extensive agriculture
Other Agricultural and Rural Lane Use Issues • Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification (soil degradation, overgrazing), extensive fertilizer and pesticide use, animal wastes, deforestation, wetland destruction, river and aquifer depletion. • Conservation vs preservation. • Roles of women in agricultural production. • Cadastral systems and rural land use and settlement patterns. • Industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to large -scale commercial farming, factory farming and factors affecting the location of processing facilities • Sustainable and organic farming, crop rotation, fair trade, and eat-local-food movements