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Mechanization
The replacement of human work with work by machines is referred to as mechanization. Increasing mechanization in agriculture has allowed people to produce food in ever-greater quantities and with ever more consistent quality. Material elements of modern agricultural mechanization include rather ...
- Food Challenges
- Animal Welfare
- Beyond Organic
- Cheap Food Policy
- Crop Genetic Diversity
- DDT
- Debt Crisis
- Disappearing Middle
- Export Dependency
- Famine
- Farm Crisis
- Fast Food
- Food Processing Industry
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Genetically Modified Organisms
- Grain-Fed Beef
- High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Integrated Pest Management
- Irradiation
- Mad Cow Disease
- Malthusianism
- Mechanization
- Millennium Development Goals
- Modernization
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Organochlorines
- Origin Labeling
- Peasant
- Pesticide
- Productionism
- Proletarianization
- Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone
- Roundup Ready Crops
- Salmonella
- Sewage Sludge
- Soil Erosion
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Swidden Agriculture
- Weed Management
- Food Economics and Trade
- Food Farm and Industry
- Agrarian Question
- Agrarianism
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural Commodity Programs
- Agricultural Extension
- Agrodiversity
- Agroecology
- Agrofood System (Agrifood)
- Aquaculture
- Biodynamic Agriculture
- Biological Control
- Bt
- Composting
- Confined Animal Feeding Operation
- Contract Farming
- Cooperative
- Corn
- Cover Cropping
- Crop Rotation
- Dairy
- Dioxins
- Factory Farm
- Family Farm
- Fertilizer
- Fruits
- Grazing
- Hunting
- Intercropping
- Irrigation
- Legume Crops
- Low-Input Agriculture
- Meats
- Nanotechnology and Food
- Organic Farming
- Plantation
- Rice
- Salmon
- Seed Industry
- Soil Nutrient Cycling
- Soybeans
- Substitutionism
- Sugarcane
- Urban Agriculture
- Vegetables
- Wheat
- Yeoman Farmer
- Food Laws, Agreements, and Organizations
- Archer Daniels Midland
- California Certified Organic Farmers
- Certified Humane
- Certified Organic
- Codex Alimentarius
- Commons ConAgra
- Department of Agriculture, U.S
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Doha Round, World Trade Organization
- Fair Labor Association
- Fair Trade
- Farm Bill
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food First
- Food Justice Movement
- Food Quality Protection Act
- Food Sovereignty
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- International Coffee Agreement
- Land Grant University
- National Organic Program
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Northeast Organic Farming Association
- Ogallala Aquifer
- Public Law 480, Food Aid
- Sustainable Fisheries Act
- United Farm Workers
- Wal-Mart
- Foods and Lifestyle
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