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CAP:The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programmes.Reforms of the system are currently underway reducing import controls and transferring subsidy to land stewardship rather than specific crop production.

BSE: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad-cow disease (MCD), is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord.

GM FOODS: Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering, using a process of either Cisgenesis or Transgenesis.

Green Revolution refers to the transformation of agriculture that began in 1945, largely due to the life work of Norman Borlaug. One significant factor in this revolution was the Mexican government's request to establish an agricultural research station to develop more varieties of wheat that could be used to feed the rapidly growing population of the country.

THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE.

The Agriculture is important. Before, was more important.But today is even, because the agriculture provides occupation. About 45% of the world workforce was employed in the agriculture. The alimentary production continues increasing like the harvests by hectare,too the trade in agricultural products has increased and the Agriculture provides the base

of a lot of manufacture and industries of service and alimentary and a variety of services.

FARMING TYPES

A) Modern Mediterrenean agriculture.

B) Wet rice farming

C) Extensive commercial farming

D) Shifting cultivation.

E) Dry and extensive agriculture.

F) Market gardening.

G) Plantation agriculture.

Join words and definitions

1.Arable : f. the cultivation of crops.

2.Commercial: d. the products are sold to make a profit.

3.Intensive: a. high input and yield per unit area.

4.Nomadie: g. farmers moved seasonally with their herds.

5.Extensive: e. low input an yield per unit area.

6.Pastoral: b. reaning animals.

7.Sedentay: h. farmers remain in the same place throughout the year.

8.Subsistence: c. the products are consumed by the cultivators.

KEY WORDS

Look for the meaning of :

-Crops (cultivos) : a pounch in many birds and some lower animals that resenbles a stomach for torage and preliminary maceration of food.

-Cattle (ganado) : domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.

-Relief (alivio) : the act of reducing something unpleasant.

-Soil (tierra) : material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow. Agricultural soil.

-Labour (trabajo): productive work.

-Farmer (agricultor) : a person that works in the crop of vegetables.

-Yield (cosecha) :production of de harvest

-Herd (manada) : a group of animals that takes care them a person

-Seeds (semillas) : each one of the part that it origin to a new plant.

-Input (importación) : buy other products manufactures in other countries.

-Outout (exportación) : when send products to other countries.

1-JOIN COLUMNS

1. Bens e mercadorías-goods and commodities- merchandise or possessions freight. A raw material or agricultural product that can be bought and sold.

2. Recursos naturais e materias primas- natural resources and raw materials- the things we use that are provided in the natural environment e. g. water, minerals, fuels, soil and so on.

3. Beneficio- profit- a financial gain, especially the difference between an initial outlay and the subsequent amount earned.

4. Servizos- services- activities that do not produce or modify goods, they include education, health care, transport, tourism…

5. Hipoteca- mortgage- a legal agreement by which a person takes out a loan using as security real property (usually a house which is being purchased).

6. Accion- share- any of the equal parts into which a company’s capital is divided, entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits.

7. Globalización- globalization- It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together.

8. Producto Interior Bruto (PIB)- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)- the total summed value of the output in a country for a year.

9. Bolsa- stock exchange- a market in which shares are bought and sold.

10.Oferta- supply- the amount of goods or services available.

11. Deslocalización- relocation- move to a new place and establish factories or businesses there.

12. Paro- unemployment- the number or proportion of unemployed people.

13.Sindicatos- trade unions- organization of workers who have banded together to improve working conditions.

14.Demanda- demand- the desire of buyers to purchase goods or services.

1.Fontes renovables- renewable resources- flows or living things which are either never-ending or grow quickly enough that their use does not lead to exhaustion.

2.Traballo a tempo parcial- part-time work- a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Part-time workers commonly work fewer than 30 or 35 hours a week.

3.Fontes non renovables - non-renewable resources- resources which are replaced slower than the rate at which they are used and they can be exhausted in a short period of time e.g. coal.

4.Inflación – inflation- a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

5.Deflación- deflation- reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.

6.Países desenvolvidos -More economically development countries (MEDCs)- Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia

7.Países subdesenvolvidos- Less economically development countries (LEDCs)- - poor countries, especially in Africa, South America and Asia.

8.Novos países industriais- Newly industrialising countries (NICs)- countries that have undergone rapid industrialisation since the 1960s. The term is most commonly applied to the four 'Asian tigers' of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, but this is becoming out of date, and today we can include China and India.

9.Renta per cápita- per capita income- how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country.

10.Balanza de pagamentos- balance of payments (BOP)- payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries.

11.Débeda-debt- a sum of money owed.