agrarian community

Rural farming settlement

An agrarian community is a society whose economy and way of life center on farming and the cultivation of land.

Such communities typically share values around rural living, land ownership, and agricultural labor: The agrarian community opposed the new highway through their farmland.

The term often carries connotations of traditional, close-knit social structures tied to seasonal rhythms and the land itself.

Related

village elders · oral histories · seed saving · folk songs · arable land · barn raising · subsistence living · crop rotation · rural traditions · organic farming · plowing · threshing floor · growing season · pastureland · grazing rights · family farm · terracing · composting

Opposites
economic base and livelihood

agrarian communityindustrial society

Civilization centered on manufacturing

factory town · commercial center · service economy · tech hub · financial district

population density and settlement pattern

agrarian communityurban center

Populated municipal area

metropolis · city · megalopolis · urban sprawl · downtown

technological and developmental stage

agrarian communitydigital society

Community organized through technology

high-tech corridor · knowledge economy

Family

agrarian, agrarianism, agriculture, agricultural, agriculturally, agribusiness, agronomy, agronomist, agronomic

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