food security
When people don't have enough to eat and don't know where their next meal will come from - this is known as what?
Food Insecurity
what are the 3 different level of government?
Local/ City/Tribal, State, Federal
A food production system that cultivates fish and plants together in a constructed, recirculating ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish waste to plant nutrition. - what is this known as?
Aquaponics
A non-profit warehouse or organization that collects, stores, and redistributes large quantities of surplus and donated food to smaller frontline groups rather than serving individuals directly
Food bank
This is a bill that expires every 5 years and provides money for federally-funded programs like SNAP and WIC. This bill also supports farmers with loans and resources along conservation efforts in the U.S.
Farm Bill
A large area of land that is used to grow a single crop or plant; or to raise a single breed of animal.
This process is known as what?
Monoculture
This is a federally-funded program that helps provide food for families and individuals that need food assistance. It is funded under the Farm Bill and over 40 million people use these benefits a month.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
or food stamps
the right of the peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods and the right to define their own food and agriculture systems - this is known as what?
Food Sovereignty
Loss of biodiversity, climate change, commodified crops, high use of pesticides, use of big machinery - these are all examples of what type of agricultural food system?
Industrial Agricultural Food System
This is a federally-funded program that supports parents who are pregnant, breastfeeding or have children under 5. It is funded under the farm bill.
WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)
A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, especially in politics, economics, or business – creates the systems we live in.
Policies
Decaying organic materials used as a plant fertilizer
Permaculture