Agricultural geography

That is, the study of the phenomena and effects that lead to the formation of the earth's top surface, in different regions.

Settlers continue to change the landscape by the demolishing wooded areas and turning them into pasteurized fields.

[1] It is traditionally considered the branch of economic geography that investigates those parts of the Earth's surface that are transformed by humans through primary sector activities for consumption.

It thus focuses on the different types of structures of agricultural landscapes and asks for the cultural, social, economic, political, and environmental processes that lead to these spatial patterns.

While most research in this area concentrates rather on production than on consumption,[2] a distinction can be made between nomothetic (e.g. distribution of spatial agricultural patterns and processes) and idiographic research (e.g. human-environment interaction and the shaping of agricultural landscapes).