Agricultural Landscapes
Landscapes created by the interaction between farming activities and the natural environment.
What are agricultural landscapes?
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 term describes the science of altering organisms through genetic manipulation.
What is biotechnology?
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?
This factor is expected to have the greatest long‑term impact on global food insecurity.
What is climate change?
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?
These examples from Singapore and Cyprus show geographic variation in women’s roles in this category.
What is food consumption?
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 factor caused a major spike in global food insecurity in 2018.
What are wars and conflict?
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?