Feeding the Future: Agriculture
Farming that produces food mainly for survival.
What is subsistence farming?
A distinct layer within the soil profile.
What is a soil horizon?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
A Kenyan farmer, he is the main character of the documentary Thank You for the Rain.
Who is Kisulu?
In a society, these include government-provided education, healthcare, and infrastructure.
What are public services?
In a farming system, these include resources such as water, seeds, and sunlight.
What are inputs?
Dark, nutrient-rich decomposed organic matter in soil.
What is humus?
This animal improved travel and communication in the Equestrian Age.
What is the horse?
Tiny plastic particles that enter the food chain.
What are microplastics?
False or misleading content that is spread as if it were true.
What is misinformation?
Environmental features like climate, rainfall, and relief.
What are physical features?
Dense, heavy soils made of very fine particles that hold water well but drain poorly.
What are clay soils?
Mass movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The lack of reliable access to enough food.
What is food insecurity?
This happens when society splits into opposing groups that no longer trust each other.
What is polarization?
Growing the same crop repeatedly on the same land.
What is monocropping?
These break down organic matter and release nutrients for plants.
What are microorganisms?
A Dutch chartered trading company founded in 1602 with a monopoly on Asian trade, often seen as the first multinational joint-stock corporation.
What is the Dutch East India Company
The Major climate meeting that Kisilu attended in Paris.
What is the Paris Climate Conference (COP21)?
Forced movement of people from their homes due to conflict, disaster, or persecution.
What is displacement or forced migration?
A set of ideas about how humans view and use the environment.
What is an Environmental Value System (EVS)?
The removal of nutrients by water moving through soil.
What is leaching?
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming and settled life, which began around 10,000 BCE
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The idea that vulnerable countries deserve support for climate impacts
What is climate justice?
A conflict where opposing powers support different sides instead of fighting directly.
What is a proxy war?