Food Security
Conditions under which people face chronic hunger, poor nutrition, and health problems (due to poverty)
What is Food Insecurity
What are the 2 type of Land-Based Agriculture
What is Industrialized and Traditional agriculture
Large inputs of energy are needed to grow, store, process, package, transport, refrigerate, and cook plants and animals. (high-input)
What is Industrialized Agriculture
any species that interferes with human welfare by eating society’s food; invading homes, lawns, or gardens; destroying building materials; spreading disease; invading ecosystems; nuisance
What is a Pest
provides homes for pest’s enemies.
What is pest management
Three out of ten people in world must survive on equivalent of less than ________ a day
What is $3.10
Global meat consumption is likely to double by
2050
The movement of soil from one place to another by nature and by human activity
What is Soil Erosion
EPA stands for what ?
What is Environmental Protection Agency ?
crops/livestock produced without the use of synthetic pesticides, inorganic fertilizers, genetic engineering, antibiotics, growth hormones
What is organic fertilizer
lack of protein and other key ingredients
What is Malnutrition
is a plant, animal or microbe in which one or more changes have been made to the genome
GMO (gametically modified organism)
Process by which productive potential of topsoil falls by 10% or more due to human activities
What is Soil Desertification
USDA stands for what ?
what is U.S. Department of Agriculture
Solar energy and human labor to grow a crop that will feed a family with no surplus
What is traditional agriculture
Food energy intake exceeds energy use and causes excess body fat
What is Overnutrition
Three systems supply most of world’s food
Croplands, Rangelands/pastures/feedlots, Fish and shellfish production (seafood)
70% of water humanity uses goes to
What is Irrigation water
FDA stands for what
What is Food and Drug Administration
How many plants/animals supply most of world’s calories.
What is 14 species
Some 2 billion people suffer ____________ deficiencies
What is vitamin/mineral deficiencies
Food costs are much higher than what people pay due to costs of pollution, environmental degradation, higher health-related costs, subsidies
what is Hidden Cost
At least 10% of world’s irrigated cropland suffers from
Salinization
IPM
what is integrated pest management
use (animal/green manure, compost) to restore soil fertility
What is Organic Fertilizer