TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 10

Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 10 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 60 Argentina Global Resources The Country Argentina is a wedge-shaped country at the tip of South America. Physically the nation has the largest territory and fourth largest population after Mexico Colombia and Spain of all Spanish-speaking countries in the world. In total area it is four times the size of Texas and is the eighth largest countr y in the world. Its capital Buenos Aires is the largest city in the Southern Cone which includes Argentina Chile Paraguay and Uruguay. Argentina s annual gross domestic product is consistently second in South America. Brazil the largest countr y in the region is always first. Argentina clearly has great wealth and greater economic potential owing to its natural resource base. However the top 1 percent of the people have nearly all of the wealth and the bulk of the land and the national debt is high. Additionally growing crops for export and simultaneously producing food crops for domestic consumption constitute a challenge for Argentina. As world food prices have escalated export critics have worried about Argentina s ability to feed its own people at affordable prices. Thus Argentina has natural resource problems for which the country s diverse and educated people must eventually find solutions. Agricultural Land of the Pampas Agricultural land composes 47 percent of Argentina s total area and agricultural products account for about one-half the annual value of the country s exports to the global economy. The bulk of Argentina s agricultural exports come from the Pampas which is the wealthiest rural area in South America. The region s vast open plains deep rich soil and moderate climate are the physical bases for the wealth. The plains topography is conducive to raising large fields of fodder crops for livestock yards and for open field grazing. The climate of the Pampas area is much like that of the Middle Atlantic states of the East Coast of the United States. The Pampas has year-round precipitation a relatively long .

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