Food Security and The Food Cliff
The projected mismatch between global food demand and agricultural production capacity is commonly referred to as this.
What is the food cliff?
A prolonged shortage of available food leading to widespread hunger is known as this.
What is a famine?
The production of meat from cultured animal cells rather than whole organisms is commonly called this.
What is cultured meat/cellular agriculture?
CRISPR-Cas9 functions primarily as this type of molecular tool.
What is a gene-editing system?
The Green Revolution dramatically increased crop yields through improved varieties and increased use of these inputs.
What are fertilizers and irrigation?
Rapid population growth increases pressure on agriculture primarily by increasing this.
What is food demand?
Overreliance on irrigation can eventually decrease soil productivity through this process.
What is salinization?
Plant tissue culture relies heavily on the ability of plant cells to exhibit this property.
What is totipotency?
Gene editing differs from traditional selective breeding because it allows this.
What is targeted DNA modification?
Golden Rice was engineered primarily to increase production of this nutrient precursor.
What is beta-carotene/vitamin A precursor?
Climate change threatens crop productivity most directly through altered patterns of this environmental factor.
What is temperature and precipitation?
This agricultural practice helps maintain soil nutrients by alternating crops between growing seasons.
What is crop rotation?
A sterile growth environment is critical in cell culture primarily to prevent this.
What is contamination?
A knockout mutation generated by CRISPR would most likely result in this outcome.
What is loss of gene function?
A major concern regarding widespread herbicide-resistant crops is the evolution of this.
What are herbicide-resistant weeds?
A crop system dependent on a single genetically uniform variety is especially vulnerable to this biological threat.
What is disease/pest outbreak?
Industrial agriculture often increases yield at the cost of reduced this ecological feature.
What is biodiversity?
The ability to regenerate an entire plant from a small group of cells demonstrates this developmental principle.
What is cellular totipotency?
Editing a drought-response gene to improve crop survival represents this type of biotechnology goal.
What is stress tolerance engineering?
Precision agriculture improves farming efficiency by using data to optimize this.
What is resource application/input management?
If global caloric production is sufficient but populations still experience hunger, the primary issue is likely this.
What is food distribution/access inequality?
A farming system requiring increasing fertilizer input to maintain identical yields is most likely experiencing this problem.
What is soil degradation/nutrient depletion?
If cultured meat production becomes energy intensive at industrial scale, its sustainability advantage may be reduced because of increased this.
What is energy consumption/carbon footprint?
A mutation introduced into germline tissue becomes especially significant because it can be this.
What is inherited/passed to offspring?
A future farming strategy combining gene editing, automation, and climate-resilient crops is primarily attempting to improve this global challenge.
What is long-term food security?