Study of Agricultural Geography

Agricultural geography is defined as the study of the geographical and locational attributes patterns and processes of crop and animal farming and related subjects such as farm land farm-associated human geographers environmental issues and theoretical works on the location of agricultural activities. The study of agricultural geography has produced a large amount of literature. This volume records and presents in an organized manner as much of this literature as possible. The entries of this compendium are written in a wide array of languages including English French Spanish Portuguese Italian German Swedish Danish Dutch Russian and others in order to provide the widest coverage possible.