| Subsistence | Commercial |
| produced for consumption | produced for market (profit) |
| work by hand | mechanized |
| wost people are farmers | few people are farmers |
| small plots | large farms |
| shifting agriculture | livestock & ranching |
| nomadic pastoralism | horticulture |
| intensive subsistence w/ dom. rice | dairy farming |
| mixed crops | |
| intensive subsistence without dom. rice | grain |
| mediterranean | |
| plantation |