Inputs, outputs & Environmental impacts of terrestrial food production system : The comparison

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Type of terrestrial system

A single crop

Farming for Profit

Commercial

Farming
Both commercial and subsistence famer can be either intensive or extensive

Subsistence Farmer

Produces only enough to feed family

None of the produced, to sell for profit

But usually aim to have very high output (through large inputs of capital and labour)

Take up a small area of land

Intensive

Farms

Extensive

Farms

Large in comparison to the money and labour put into them

None of the produced, to sell for profit

How to measure the efficiency of the system?

Compare the outputs to inputs, per unit area of land

Marketable products (meat, Fuel, grain)

Fuel, labour, transport, fertilizer, dealing with waste products

Comparison