--- title: Food and farming around the world — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Food and farming around the world», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Look at a plate of chips with ketchup and a cup of hot chocolate: the potato, the tomato and the cocoa all came from the Americas, and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / Food and farming around the world # Food and farming around the world Lesson 26 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/0/) — Look at a plate of chips with ketchup and a cup of hot chocolate: the potato, the tomato and the cocoa all came from the Americas, and none of them was eaten in Europe before 1492. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/1/) — Food has a map and a history. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/2/) — Three grains feed much of humanity: rice, wheat and maize. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/3/) — Rice loves hot, wet river plains with flooded fields; wheat likes cooler, drier lands; and where land is too dry or too cold to farm, people herd animals instead. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/4/) — After 1492 plants and animals crossed the Atlantic both ways: potatoes, maize and cocoa to the Old World, wheat, horses, cattle and sugar cane to the New. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/5/) — Historians call this the Columbian Exchange. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/6/) — In Europa Universalis 5 sugar is a valuable trade good from Caribbean colonies and grain is the plain good of many locations. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/7/) — The game shows the price, not the people: each sugar estate was worked by enslaved Africans in brutal conditions, and real farms grew many crops, not one. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/8/) — Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed many, but farming still drinks about 70 percent of the fresh water people take. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/9/) — Rice, wheat and maize together provide a large share of all the calories people eat in the world. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/10/) — Rice grows best in hot, wet places with flooded fields (the water also holds back weeds), especially in the river plains and deltas of China, India and South-East Asia. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/11/) — After 1492 plants and animals crossed the Atlantic in both directions, which historians call the Columbian Exchange. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/12/) — Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and cocoa came from the Americas, while wheat, horses, cattle and sugar cane went there; there had been no horses in the Americas before. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/13/) — The potato was first farmed in the Andes of South America and became a staple food in Europe, from Ireland to Russia, by the 1700s and 1800s. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/15/) — Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/16/) — Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs were tamed in South-West Asia, while the llama and alpaca were tamed in the Andes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/17/) — On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and in deserts many peoples lived as nomadic herders, moving with their animals to find fresh grass and water. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/18/) — Farmers in hilly places cut steps called terraces into the slopes, so the flat steps hold water and stop soil washing away, as in the rice terraces of the Philippines and the farming terraces of the Inca in the Andes. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/19/) — Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer farmers grow much more food than in the past, and only about 1 percent of Britons now work on the land. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/20/) — Farming uses about 70 percent of all the fresh water people take from rivers, lakes and underground; bringing water to fields is called irrigation, and in deserts, with too little rain, crops cannot grow without it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/21/) — Coffee came originally from Ethiopia and was first drunk widely in Yemen, while tea came from China. - ← previous: [Languages and peoples on the map](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) - next →: [Resources and what countries trade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)