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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures. The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Central pivot irrigation: an irrigation system that moves in a circular pattern around a central pivot point - Contour farming: tilling sloped land along lines of consistent elevation in order to conserve rainwater and to reduce soil losses from erosion - Strip cropping: partitioning a field into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotation system - Terracing: a method of farming consisting of building platforms along a slope At 3:10 we show a collage of Google Earth images from the video. Here are the coordinates for each (from left to right and top to bottom): 1: 1°15'60.0“S 37°24'11.5“E 2: 1°15'40.8“S 37°23'57.2“E 3: 7°51'04.2“S 61°35'47.1
