1.7 Classifying agricultural systems
Variations in the type of farm management have been summarized with reference to four main parameters (Smith and Hill, 1975): biological diversity, intensity of human management, net energy balance, and management responsibility. Differences in these have produced a continuum of farming systems, from maintenance of a semi-natural ecosystem, as in open-range grazing, to farming involving the creation of artificial environ-ments such as glasshouses and hen batteries. In seeking to understand the spatial distribution of the various systems, geographers have utilized various types of classification. Indeed, classification has
been a significant element of agricultural geography for some time, and attempts to produce systems of world agricultural regions have a long history, generally based on the concept of a set of agricultural regions in which there is a recognized uniformity of agricultural production. In developing such classifications, three basic approaches can be recognized (Tarrant, 1974, pp. 112-45),
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1.7 Classifying agricultural systems
Variations in the type of farm management have been summarized with reference to four main parameters (Smith and Hill, 1975): biological diversity, intensity of human management, net energy balance, and management responsibility. Differences in these have produced a continuum of farming systems, from maintenance of a semi-natural ecosystem, as in open-range grazing, to farming involving the creation of artificial environ-ments such as glasshouses and hen batteries. In seeking to understand the spatial distribution of the various systems, geographers have utilized various types of classification. Indeed, classification has
been a significant element of agricultural geography for some time, and attempts to produce systems of world agricultural regions have a long history, generally based on the concept of a set of agricultural regions in which there is a recognized uniformity of agricultural production. In developing such classifications, three basic approaches can be recognized (Tarrant, 1974, pp. 112-45),
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