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Normadic herding

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Usually occurs in LEDCs where grazers move their livestock following water and food sources

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Shifting cultivation

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Land is cleared of vegetation (deforested), used and abandoned (fallowed)

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Subsistence farming

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A type of farming which only produces enough for household needs (farming for family only)

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Intensive farming

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High yield of crops per square km - occurs in wet areas usually

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Extensive farming

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Low yield of crops per square km - occurs in dry areas usually

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Comerical farming

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Farming done for commercial purposes

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Specialty crops

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Crops that are intensely cultivated such as fruit and vegetables

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Forestry

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Timber is grown and harvested, fish is grown and harvested and crops are harvested.

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