Social Justice
System of farming where a landlord allows a tenant to use their land in exchange for a percentage of the
crop.
What is sharecropping?
Practices that reduce input consumption and improve crop productivity
What is a efficiency increasing practice?
Three components of the disease triangle?
What are 1) pathogen, 2) environment, and 3) host?
The condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
What is food security?
Origin of definition of sustainable agriculture we use in class.
What is "Our Common Future" (a.k.a. the Brundtland Report) from the UN in 1987.
Name of indigenous people who lived and farmed in Ithaca and the surrounding area prior to land dispossession by American colonists.
Who are the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation) or Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
Intentionally establishing plants to attract pollinators and/or natural enemies of pests
What is an insectary planting?
What are two solutions to labor shortages in dairy production?
What are immigrant labor and automation?
Progenitor of corn?
What is teosinte?
Branch of agriculture dealing with field-crop production and soil management
What is agronomy?
A community’s right to define their own food and agriculture systems. Idea that people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distributioN
What is Food Sovereignty?
A type of practice that requires a farmer to make substantial changes to their cropping system when adopting
What is a redesign practice?
Nonmaterial benefits people obtain from ecosystems
What are cultural ecosystem services?
Tool used to make precise changes in DNA sequence. Used by Dr. Joyce van Eck here at Cornell.
What is gene editing?
Herbicide found in streams in US corn belt that has been banned in European countries. Has EPA threshold of 3 ppb for drinking water
What is Atrazine?
Closing existing stores and not locating new stores in impoverished neighborhoods
What is supermarket redlining?
Use low-input methods to grow crops and raise animals, while conserving biological diversity on the same land
What is land sharing?
Entomologist who came up with the "Half Earth" idea
Who is E.O. Wilson?
Place where Dr. Joyce van Eck works
What is the Boyce Thompson Institute?
Plant families from cover crop challenge
what are poaceae, fabaceae, brassicaceae, and polygonaceae
Name (Plantiff v. Defendent) of class action lawsuit that was awarded for the unfair allocation of price support loans, disaster payments, "farm ownership" loans, operating loans. Over $1 billion paid or credited to more than 13,300 farmers.
What is Pigford v. Glickman?
Two components of ecological intensification
What are 1) ecological replacement 2) ecological enhancement?
Name of retired agriculture economist who was highlighted in the video "Right to Harm" (Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri).
Who is John Ikerd?
Crops that Dr. Van Eck works on
What are: 1) Goldenberry and 2) Groundcherry?
Two criteria used to evaluate news source (i.e., x and y axes on plot from Ad Fontes Media)
What are 1) political bias and 2) factual reporting (news values and reliability)?