Fertilizers
Genetically Modified Organisms
Sustainable Agriculture
Green Revolution
Environmental Impact
100
A chemical or natural substance added to soil to increase its fertility.
What is a fertilizer?
100
GMOs are plants or animals created through the gene splicing techniques of biotechnology
What are genetically modified organisms?
100
Farming to satisfy human food and fiber needs, enhance environmental quality and the natural resource base upon which the agricultural economy depends, and sustain the economic viability of farm operations
What is sustainable agriculture?
100
series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s
What is the Green Revolution and when did it happen?
100
blue-baby syndrome (methemoglobinemia) and miscarriages in pregnant women. Mercury, lead, cadmium and uranium are some of the toxic heavy metals that have been found in fertilizers and can cause cancer and disturbances of the kidneys, lungs and liver.
What are some fertilizer impacts on human health?
200
known to improve biodiversity and long-term productivity of soil, and may prove a large depository for excess carbon dioxide
What are some benefits of organic fertilizer?
200
Most developed nations do not consider GMOs to be safe. In nearly 50 countries around the world, there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production and sale of GMOs
Are GMOs safe?
200
method of growing only one crop at a time in a given field
What is monoculture?
200
Norman Borlaug
Who is the Father of The Green Revolution?
200
Over 80% of all GMOs grown worldwide are engineered for herbicide tolerance. As a result, use of toxic herbicides has increased 15 times since GMOs were introduced. GMOs are also direct extension of chemical agriculture, and are developed and sold by the world’s biggest chemical companies.
What are the impacts of GMOs on the environment?
300
Compost, rock phosphate, bone meal, manure, alfalfa, wood chips, sawdust
What are some examples of organic fertilizers?
300
In the U.S., GMOs are in as much as 80% of conventional processed food.
How common are GMOs?
300
agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields.
What is Slash-and-burn?
300
saving over a billion people from starvation, the expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers
What is the Father of The Green Revolution credited for?
300
ncreasing the birth rate, longevity and overall fitness of certain agricultural pests, such as aphids
What are some problems caused by increased pest fitness?
400
Johann Glauber
Who developed the first complete mineral fertilizer?
400
GMOs therefore pose a serious threat to farmer sovereignty and to the national food security of any country where they are grown, including the United States.
How do GMOs affect farmers?
400
The community of states at the World Food Summit set a target to reduce the number of hungry (830 million at that time) by half by 20152.
What was the goal of the community of states at the World Food Summit?
400
weakened socialist movements in many nations. In countries such as India, Mexico, and the Philippines, technological solutions were sought as an alternative to expanding agrarian reform initiatives, which were often linked to socialist politics
What is the political impact of the Green Revolution?
400
the average size of the dead zone (where the oxygen levels are too low to support life) in the Gulf of Mexico was over 8,000 square miles in the summer of 2007.
What happened as a result of fertilizer runoff in the agricultural upper regions of the Mississippi River
500
nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium
What substances do Primary fertilizers include?
500
Glofish, Grapple, Graisin, Paper Tree, Dolion, Tiny Piney, Lemurat
What are some bizarre genetically modified organisms?
500
The Commission stressed that increasing weather variability and climate shocks will negatively affect agricultural yields, necessitating early action to drive change in agricultural production systems towards increasing resilience.
What did The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change urge the public?
500
modern irrigation projects, pesticides, synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and improved crop varieties.
What are some technologies spread throughout the Green Revolution?
500
A recent program in western Africa attempting to introduce a new high-yield variety of rice. However, the program has been beset by problems getting the rice into the hands of farmers, and to date the only success has been in Guinea where it currently accounts for 16% of rice cultivation.
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