Paper 2 · Development Geography
Which factor influencing agricultural land use refers to farmers' access to irrigation, machinery and improved seed varieties, allowing more intensive and higher-yielding production?
AGovernment policy on land use
BLand tenure arrangements
CSize of the agricultural holding
DTechnology available to farmers
Explanation: Technology, in the form of irrigation, machinery and improved seed varieties, is what allows a farmer to intensify production and raise yields on a given area of land, overcoming some physical limitations. This is distinct from government policy (rules and incentives), land tenure (who legally holds the land) and the size of the holding (which affects scale rather than intensity of input use directly).
Derived from ZIMSEC Geography Paper 2, June 2004, Q8
