Global Economic Activities: Agriculture, Commerce, and Impacts

Agrarian Landscapes

Agrarian Landscape

In Kansas (United States): flat relief, open fields, herbaceous crops, large estates, uniform plot shape.

In Normandy (France): medium-sized holdings, herbaceous crops, irregular plot shape, hedgerows.

In Guipuzcoa (País Vasco): smallholdings, herbaceous crops, meadows and forestry, mountainous relief, dispersed settlement, irregular plot shape.

In Granada (Andalucía): medium-sized holdings, herbaceous crops, irregular plot shape, hedgerows.

By plantation: plots are typically large, companies, usually foreign, impose one type of monoculture, with crops intended for export, settlement alternates between concentrated and dispersed.

By agriculture: plots are primarily large geometric estates, forming a uniform agrarian landscape with open fields. The crops are cultivated using dry and irrigation farming.

By mediterranean: large estates exist alongside small, irregular plots. The land alternates between open and closed fields, particularly in irrigated areas.

Sectors of the Economy

Sectors of Economy

Primary: agriculture, livestock farming, forestry, fishing

Secondary: mining, industrial activities, construction, energy production

Tertiary: commerce, tourism, transport and communications, services

Transportation

Transportation

Road transport: car

Rail transport: train

River and sea transport: canoe

Air transport: plane

Definition

Definition

GDP: is the total value of all goods and services a country produces during a given period.

Commerce

Commerce

It is governed by the principles of supply and demand. It is reinforced through marketing, which includes a number of practices intended to stimulate consumption. It promotes new business.

Impacts

Impacts

1º Agriculture and livestock farming: irrigation depletes aquifers and causes soil salinisation, greenhouse farming increases waste, the excessive use of chemical fertilisers pollutes the soil.

2º Mining: environmental: soil erosion and damage to the landscape, vegetation, and fauna. Social: particularly in developing countries, where exploitation of minerals occurs.

3º Tourism: landscapes produced by beach tourism can sometimes be identified by a large number of buildings connected by major roads. Landscapes produced by winter tourism include hotel and transport infrastructure.

Organizations

Organizations

• FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization
• ILO: International Labour Organization
• UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Global Conflicts

Global Conflicts

Central and South America, in particular drug trafficking in Mexico and Colombia, and guerrilla warfare in Colombia.

In Syria, the civil war, the conflict between the Kurds and the Turkish and Iraqi governments, and the emergence of violent terrorists such as Islamic State.

Solutions for Poverty

Solutions for Poverty

Give a small part of our money, give food to faces, invest our money in useful things and then give them to people who need it.