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Read moreAgribusiness,”- is farming conductedby large-scale operations that purchase, produce,finance, package
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Read moreclimate change and urbanization,”- North America produces 26 percentof the world’s greenhouse gases, even though it only has 5 percent ofthe world’s population. This is related to the region’s pattern of urbandevelopment and its fossil fuel-dependent industrial and agriculturalproduction methods.- While many parts of North America are exposed to multiple climate changeimpacts
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Read morefood and sustainability,”- Shifts to mechanized agriculture in North America affected the workforce greatly. From 1790 to 1910, family-owned farms provided food for domestic consumption and export. Today, these farms are being replaced by mechanized, corporate agribusiness.-Green revolutiontechnologies and strategiesto increase yields (such asirrigation, computerization,GMO seeds, chemicalfertilizers
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Read morewater and food,”North American food production systems havecontributed to water pollution in part because large sections of thecountryside have been cleared for cultivation
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Read moreorganically grown,”- foods, produced without chemicalfertilizers or pesticides
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Read morePeople of North America,”The Bering land bridge allowed hunters to enter NorthAmerica from northeastern Asia about 25,000 years ago.About 3,000 years ago, domesticated crops were introduced.■ There were sizeable settlements in North America withspecialized economies.■ After European occupation of the continent, settlers, with theassistance of slave labor, built villages, towns, port cities
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Read moretransportation,”- An extensive road and air transport network is key to North America’s productive economy. In the 1950s, the Interstate Highway System, a 45,000-mile network of high-speed multilane roads, allowed for more flexible and faster delivery of goods than can be provided by rail. After World War II
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Read morepeople of North America,”The rapid expansion of European settlement was facilitated by the vulnerability of NativeAmerican populations to European diseases. Having long been isolated from the rest of theworld, Native Americans had no immunity to diseases such as measles and smallpox.Transmitted by Europeans and Africans who had built up immunity to them, these diseaseskilled up to 90 percent of Native Americans within the first 100 years of contact.Roughly 18 million Native Americans lived in North America in 1492. By1542, after just a few Spanish expeditions, only half that numbersurvived. By 1907, slightly more than 400,000, or a mere 2 percent ofthe 1492 population
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