What are the three adaptive strategies for food production in nonindustrial societies identified by Yehudi Cohen?

a. foraging, pastoralism, and horticulture

b. foraging, agriculture, and industrialism

c. pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture

d. pastoralism, agriculture, and industrialism

The answer is C - Pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture

Explanation:

Yehudi Cohen's Adaptive Strategies include;

Foraging Horticulture Agriculture Pastoralism Industrialism

However, there are three adaptive strategies for food production in nonindustrial societies and they include; Pastoralism, Horticulture and Agriculture.

Horticulture is plant cultivation with fallowing in nonindustrial societies. it involves the use of simple tools, the fields are temporarily cultivated, some are left fallow. Shifting cultivation is a form of horticulture.

whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities

Agriculture is a means of farming of domesticated species created for food, it makes use of both labor and land. Animals are used as means for production, irrigation and terracing allow the same plot to be cultivated year after year. It increases yield and allows for more people to live in the same villages, diseases can however spread easily.

Pastoralism unlike agriculture is aimed at breeding and producing livestock and their products rather than growing crops. It involves breeding and raising domesticated animals like sheep, goats, cows, camels. The animals are protected and allowed to reproduce. The animals can be used to provide products of domestication like wool, milk, transportation and labour.