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Too many people large-scale unemployment, and lack of housing lead to sprawling...
What is Squatter Settlements
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The re-distribution of land from large landowners to landless farm workers, and small landowners whose holdings may not be large enough to support their families is called...
What is land reform
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These type of farmers avoid the use of chemical fertilizers ad pesticides, growth hormones and other livestock feed additives
Who are organic farmers.
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This term means that there is never enough tax money to pay for all the services that cities need to run efficiently.
What is fiscal squeeze
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The application of biological processes to agricultural and industrial purposes is referred to as...
What is biotechnology.
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The distance food travels from field to table is referred to as.
What is food miles
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The idea of planning to maximize collective personal happiness rather than monetary gain is called...
What is Hedonics
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New species created as a result of biotechnology are called transgenic organisms or...
What is Genetically modified organisms
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Large-scale operations that produce the highest output of livestock.
What is factory farms
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In order to improve public transit, cities like Bogota have introduced separate roadways for buses called.
What are busways
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The type of agriculture in which a single crop is planted over a large are is called...
What is monoculture
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The _____________________ begain in 1943 when the Rockefeller foundations, at the request of the Mexican government, established an agricultural research station in Mexico to develop more produce varieties of wheat that could be used to feed the rapidly growing population of the country.
What is The Green Revolution
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Low-income squatter communities that provide affordable shelter, community support, and informal jobs are called...
What is slums of hope.
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When a company controls all aspects of the food-production business is called..
What is vertical integration
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The diet in which food travels 2400 kilometres from farm to table is called.
What is SUV Diet