Famine and Drought
When crop production is seriously limited at such an extreme level that it can no longer provide for a dependent population.
What is famine?
The amount of calories we eat each day to satisfy our body's needs.
What is nutrition?
Plants are more environmentally efficient than _ because they take up less space and energy.
What are animals?
Food shortages happen most often in these types of countries.
What are third-world countries?
From 1950 to 1970 a large movement of agricultural change occurred, this was called...
What is the Green Revolution?
When an area receives a significantly lesser amount of rainfall than typical in an extended period of time.
What is a drought?
When a person does not receive enough nutrition they may suffer from...
What is malnutrition?
The amount of food that can be grown in a predetermined area.
What is yield?
This is growing faster than the world's production of agriculture.
What is the world's population?
Large machinery used during the Green Revolution to grow crops more efficiently have caused this kind of degradation.
What is soil degradation?
Main negative cause of famines.
What is starvation?
The quantities and types of food you eat, these can be unhealthy or healthy.
What is a diet?
This is determined by the amount of food that can be produced in a certain area with the least harmful impact on the surrounding ecosystem.
What is efficiency?
Wars and governmental divides have caused this to set in upon many citizens.
What is malnourishment?
These types of farmers have suffered from the Green Revolution.
What are subsistence farmers?
Famines can be caused by extreme temperature swings, lack of rich soil, low rainfall, and...
What is warfare?
Foods such as vegetables, nuts, fruits, and meat are all filled with fat and _
What is protein?
What is deforestation?
The distribution of this is very unequal, with the rich receiving plenty and the poor receiving too little.
What is food?
Fields using new types of food engineered by scientists require large amounts of pesticides, fertilizers, and....
What is water?
Farmers must properly _ their fields to equally distribute rainfall.
What is irrigate?
Healthy diets typically consist of balanced amounts of nutrients, vitamins and.....
What is minerals?
Scientists have experimented on food sources that do not need pesticides or _ to survive.
What is fertilizers?
This country is currently the most effected nation by hunger in the world.
What is Chad?
Examples of the Green Revolution vastly upping food production include this country, which had their wheat production multiplied by eight.