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This farming method cycles animals through fields to regenerate soil and reduce chemical use.
What is rotational grazing?
The Aral Sea’s shrinking led to this change in water chemistry that harmed fish populations
What is increased salinity?
This scientific field involves altering the genetic makeup of plants or animals.
What is biotechnology?
This movement focuses on producing food within cities.
What is urban farming?
This type of work—often unpaid—makes women’s agricultural contributions invisible in data.
What is informal labor?
This type of farming is a subset of shifting agriculture and leaves fields in various stages of regeneration.
What is slash‑and‑burn farming?
This practice, intended to reduce chemical inputs, can actually intensify pesticide and herbicide use.
What is inserting herbicide‑resistant genes into crops?
These crops are engineered to survive chemical sprays, often increasing herbicide use.
What are herbicide‑resistant crops?
This type of crop, such as coffee, gains value through processing or transformation.
What is a value‑added crop?
Women working in agriculture are most concentrated in these two African regions.
What are West and East Africa?
This landscape‑altering practice creates stepped fields, such as those used for rice in the Philippines.
What is terracing?
This practice can degrade soil by removing nutrients faster than they are replaced.
What is over‑farming?
This benefit of GMOs helps farmers reduce losses from insects.
What is pest resistance?
This challenge is addressed by solutions such as mobile markets and community gardens.
What are food deserts?
This is the most difficult gender‑specific challenge women in agriculture face
What are land rights?
This global program forgives part of a country’s debt in exchange for conservation investments.
What is a debt‑for‑nature swap?
Conflict, climate change, and economic instability are all drivers of this global issue.
What is food insecurity?
This criticism argues that GMOs can increase dependence on multinational seed companies
What is loss of farmer autonomy?
This shift in consumer behavior contributes to global food insecurity.
What are shifting diets?
This policy change would most directly increase women’s agricultural productivity.
What is legal access to land ownership?
This environmental change in Central Asia occurred because rivers feeding a major inland sea were diverted.
What is the shrinking of the Aral Sea?
This term describes the loss of fertile land due to overuse, drought, or poor management.
What is desertification?
This environmental concern arises when GMO traits spread to wild plant species.
What is genetic contamination?
This practice aims to reduce chemical inputs but may unintentionally increase them.
What is engineering herbicide‑resistant crops?
Empowering women in agriculture leads to this major social benefit for families.
What is better child nutrition and education?