AP Human Geography · Industrial Revolution Project
The Industrial Revolution for agricultural techniques and tools.
ScrollBefore the industrial revolution, most goods were hand-made, farming tools relied on hand labor, and skilled craftsmen. Examples include hoes, shovels, woven baskets, axes, and plows.
Before industrialization, tools were made by hand and often lasted many years; yields were low per acre. You can still see this today in LDC's. such as Yemen, Madagascar, and Nepal. Most machines in this era were drivin' my man or dribvin my animals. and required lots of labor and input.
Hand tools crafted one at a time by skilled artisans
Ideas and tools travel with immigrating and emigrating populations
Before the industrial revolution, most countries spread agricultural techniques through the movement of people. people moving around, immigrating and emigrating, moved the ideas and the tools. As countries developed, more and more were finding new ways to improve and solve the problems of old agriculture. things like battery or steamed divin matchines. became popular to lower the cost of labor.
"As countries developed, more and more were finding new ways to improve and solve the problems of old agriculture."
All countries are involved in agriculture in some way; however, MDCs have more advanced farming tools. Most countries with advanced agricultural tools and techniques are MDC's.
MDCs have a higher GDP, HDI, and literacy rate, allowing them more funding to develop advanced farming tools, while LDCs have a lower GDP, HDI, and literacy rate, often having to rely on primitive agricultural tools.
Ox plow (LDC) vs. mechanized tractor (MDC)
Women play a big role in the agricultural tools sector; they begin to play less and less of a role as tools and techniques improve. In most cases, women start the foundation, and then men carry out the rest, since historically, men hold more power, and it's hard to change that because it's based on religious beliefs.
In peripheral countries, opportunities for women often tend to be in agriculture, farming, and material extraction. While in core countries, opportunities range from defining agricultural tools to effective finances. And even though they don't get paid as much, they still play a crucial role in agricultural techniques.
Women's roles across core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral countries
"Even though they don't get paid as much, they still play a crucial role in agricultural techniques."
Farmers can produce more food using fewer resources, increasing yields and efficiency.
Offshoring: occurs in agriculture by moving agricultural products to a country that needs or wants these products. For example, China, which is in a food deficit, often imports additional food from abroad to provide for its people.
Economic interdependence in agricultural techniques across countries can develop a divide in their farmig.
Products move from surplus nations to food-deficit countries
China is in a food deficit — it regularly imports large volumes of agricultural products from abroad to feed its population.
Pre-industrial production cycle — home, workshop, market
Agricultural tools were originally used before the industrial revolution, made at home and then used at home or sold at the market. techniques are produced through trial and error and then spread through the movement of ideas and people.
"Farms money acesstotechniques and labor, and the environmental effects of these techniques are used, forcing people to adapt different techniques."
Agricultural tools and equipment are transported by truck for regional delivery, by ship for international trade, and by train for domestic shipments.
A break-of-bulk point could be a port where cargo is unloaded from ships and loaded onto trucks or trains for inland distribution.
This improves efficiency by allowing large shipments to be divided and sent quickly to diffrent farming regions.
Large shipments subdivided and distributed inland from the port
If production leaves a region, farmers face delays and higher costs for equipment. Job loss in manufacturing reduces income and taxes, which can hurt supporting businesses and the regional economy.
Technology, agritech services, or agriculture research and development may replace the lost manufacturing sector.
Manufacturing decline followed by agritech-led recovery