Definition of agropastoralism
: a way of life or a form of social organization based on the growing of crops and the raising of livestock as the primary means of economic activity
Agropastoralism in these agriculturally marginal environments demanded a regular exchange of livestock for crops, especially during droughts.— N. Thomas Hakansson, Ethnology, Summer 1998
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The first known use of agropastoralism was in 1982
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