Food 1
What is food security?
This is the name of a disease caused by severe calorie and protein deficiency.
What is marasmus?
This is the name of the farm in California highlighting permaculture and restoring soil health.
What is Apricot Lane Farms?
This is an individual-level physiological condition resulting from food insecurity.
What is hunger?
This is the type of contaminant that has caused "one of the worst mass poisonings in history" in Bangladesh.
What is arsenic?
These are at the top 5 producing agricultural states in the United States.
What are California, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, and Illinois?
These are the 2 regions (giving the continent is fine) that have the highest rates of food insecurity in the world.
What are southern Asia and parts of Africa?
This is how much U.S. agricultural productivity has improved by since the 1950s due to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, technological advancements, and genetic engineering.
What is tripled?
This is the name for growing multiple crops together, improving soil health, reducing pests naturally, and supporting biodiversity.
What is polyculture?
These is the region of the U.S. with the highest prevalence of food insecurity in recent years.
What is the South?
This person was an agronomist who developed disease-resistant wheat, helping prevent famine in countries like Mexico and India.
Who was Norman Borlaug?
This was the name for the period of time when therw was widespread adoption of high-yield crops, chemical fertilizers, and synthetic pesticides in developing countries, significantly increasing food production.
What is the Green Revolution?