Agricultural Methods
corn, peas and wheat
What are the three major food groups in the US?
May contain hormones and antibiotics.
What is meat?
Organic Farming and Farm to Table methods
What are methods that are NOT part of the Green Revolution?
Demand-based or Industrialized agricultue is primarily used here
What is the US?
The greatest threst to food security.
What is poverty?
mass deforestation in Brazil
What is a result of meat production in Brazil?
The amount of dead fish by-catch for every 2.2 pounds (1 kg) of marketable food.
What is 33 pounds (15 kg)?
Requires 30X increase in pesticides.
What is the Green Revolution?
Nomadic herding and Shifting cultivation.
What are the Subsistence Agriculture types?
Most often cause of famine
What are armed conflict and political oppression?
Consumers of 66 pounds (30 kg) of meat per person/year
What is a developing country (China nd India)?
Number of the 17 fisheries that are over fshed.
What is 15?
2X the increase in food production from 1950-1995
What are the Green Revolution Costs?
Type of agriculture that requires lots of land, low energy and low capital
What is subsistence agriculture?
water purification, temperature regulation and recreation
What are benefits from earth's ecosystems?
Can have 1,000,000 chickens
What is a "confined animal feeding operation"?
The letters GMO
What are Genetically Modified Organisms
Requires high amounts of energy, high capital (fertilizers, etc.) and low labor inputs.
What is Industrialized or Demand-based agriulture?
3 Problems facing grasslands.
What are habitat loss, climate change and invasive species?
Another word for fish farming
What is Aquiculture?
Type of breeding to produce pest-resistance in plants.
What are GMOs?
Type of breeding to produce pest-resistance in plants.
What are GMOs?