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    This document discusses land and forest as resources in the Caribbean. It examines various farming techniques used in the region like subsistence farming, commercial farming, and livestock production. Major crops grown include sugar cane, citrus, coffee, bananas, and tobacco. Deforestation and overgrazing negatively impact the environment by causing erosion, loss of biodiversity, and reduced water quality. Forests provide employment, exports, building materials, food, medicine, tourism and act as carbon sinks. Uncontrolled deforestation leads to problems like erosion, low biodiversity, and climate change.

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    This document discusses land and forest as resources in the Caribbean. It examines various farming techniques used in the region like subsistence farming, commercial farming, and livestock production. Major crops grown include sugar cane, citrus, coffee, bananas, and tobacco. Deforestation and overgrazing negatively impact the environment by causing erosion, loss of biodiversity, and reduced water quality. Forests provide employment, exports, building materials, food, medicine, tourism and act as carbon sinks. Uncontrolled deforestation leads to problems like erosion, low biodiversity, and climate change.

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    This document discusses land and forest as resources in the Caribbean. It examines various farming techniques used in the region like subsistence farming, commercial farming, and livestock production. Major crops grown include sugar cane, citrus, coffee, bananas, and tobacco. Deforestation and overgrazing negatively impact the environment by causing erosion, loss of biodiversity, and reduced water quality. Forests provide employment, exports, building materials, food, medicine, tourism and act as carbon sinks. Uncontrolled deforestation leads to problems like erosion, low biodiversity, and climate change.

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    LAND AND FOREST

    AS A RESOURCE
    4 th Social Studies
    Objectives

    Identify the farming techniques of the Caribbean

    Examine the effects of deforestation

    Discuss land and forest as a resource to society.


    ◦ Land in the Caribbean is used primarily for:
    ◦ Subsistence farming – focus on producing
    food for one’s household

    The Land as a ◦ Commercial farming – focus on producing


    food for sale
    Resource ◦ Housing
    ◦ Social amenities
    ◦ Industrial estates
    ◦ Tourism related amenities
    Agricultural Resource in the Caribbean
    COUNTRY CROPS
    Cuba Sugar cane, citrus, coffee, tobacco
    Belize Sugar cane, citrus, banana
    Jamaica Sugar cane, citrus, coffee, banana,
    tobacco
    Haiti Sugar cane, coffee, bananas
    Barbados Sugar cane
    Grenada Banana, cocoa, spices
    Trinidad and Tobago Sugar cane, citrus fruits, coffee, and
    cocoa
    Agricultural
    Resource in the
    Caribbean
    ◦ The larger territories of the
    region also engage in
    livestock production.
    ◦ Beef and dairy cattle -
    Jamaica
    ◦ Benefits of Agriculture
    ◦ Creates employment
    ◦ Food/Nutrition
    ◦ Raw materials for
    industries
    ◦ Export
    MINERALS
    AS A
    RESOURCE
    ◦ Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive
    grazing for extended periods of time, or without
    sufficient recovery periods.
    ◦ Environmental Impact
    ◦ Loss of biodiversity (variety of plants and animals)
    ◦ Erosion (gradual wearing away of topsoil)
    Overgrazing ◦ Expose topsoil = erosion
    ◦ Low agricultural productivity
    ◦ Reduces water quality
    ◦ Smothers reefs and destroy marine life
    ◦ Increased land landslides
    OVERGRAZED
    LAND
    Ploughing
    ◦ Sometimes farmers plough
    hillsides forming gullies
    (little valleys) and furrows
    (deep wholes) running
    from the top to the bottom
    of the hills.
    ◦ When it rains, the soil is
    washed downhill.
    This system is employed by
    farmers who clear the land of its
    trees and other vegetation to plant
    crops.

    Slash and Burn After the soil becomes


    (Shifting impoverished the system is
    repeated in some other area.
    Cultivation)
    Air pollution
    Environmental Erosion
    Impact Loss of
    biodiversity
    SHIFTING CULTIVATION
    Monocropping
    ◦It is the undesirable practice of planting of a
    single type of crop on one piece of land.

    ◦Impact: lack of biodiversity and depletion of


    particular nutrients, which will lead to
    infertility.
    Forest are natural vegetation covering of
    lands which have enough moisture and
    suitable temperature for the growth of
    trees.

    Forest as a
    Resource
    Forest is a very valuable resource.

    Note: Forest has both aesthetic,


    ecological, and ethical value.
    ◦ They provide the following:
    ◦ Employment
    ◦ Export Earnings
    ◦ Supplies material for housings and paper
    Forest as a making
    ◦ Supplies food
    Resource ◦ Supplies medicine
    ◦ Tourist Attracting
    ◦ Habit for plants and animals
    ◦ Carbon sinks
    ◦ Reservoir – trees hold in water
    ◦ Deforestation is the irresponsible removal of
    forest cover leaving wide surfaces including
    slopes exposed to soil erosion
    Deforestation ◦ It is also the cutting down of trees without
    regard to the social ecological impact on the
    environment and the population.
    ◦ Erosion
    ◦ Low biodiversity
    Problems with
    ◦ Climate change
    Deforestation ◦ Home Work: - How does deforestation affect
    the water cycle?

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