Agriculture

Agriculture is practice of farming, including the cultivation of land, growing crops and rearing animals to provide food, and other products.

Articles related to agriculture on Designing Buildings include:

• Agricultural land.
• Agricultural tenancy.
• Allotment.
• Aquaculture.
• Climate-smart agriculture.
• Common Agricultural Policy.
• Forests.
• Garden.
• Green belt.
• Greenfield land.
• Green roof.
• Growing space.
• Hydroponics.
• Landscape design.
• Living facade.
• Low maintenance plants.
• Planting.
• Rain garden.
• Residential planting.
• Rural.
• Seeding and turfing.
• Structural planting.
• Subsistence agriculture.
• Trees.
• Types of land.

NB The glossary of statistical terms, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), defines intensive agriculture as: ‘…agricultural practices that produce high output per unit area, usually by intensive use of manure, agrochemicals, mechanization and so on.’