Essential Nutrients
This macronutrient is the body's main source of energy and is found in wheat, corn, and rice.
What are carbohydrates?
This resource is mostly used for agriculture, despite humans only needing to drink few cups each day.
What is water?
This country, along with China, the U.S, Canada, and the former Soviet Union, holds more than half of the world's cropland.
What is India?
This farming method incilves growing only one kind fo crop over a large area for a number of consecutive years.
What is monoculture?
This agricultural method uses synthetic chemicals to boost crop yields but can contribute to soil degradation.
What is conventional farming?
Olives, nuts, and animal fats provide this nutrient, which helps form membranes and hormones.
What are lipids?
Over 90% of this country's per capita water use, which exceeds 1,500 cubic meters per year, goes towards agriculture.
What is the United States?
These three factors hold heavy influence on farming systems, alongside geography and climate.
What is government policy, economic pressures, and social/political pressures?
This farming practice involves the use of multiple crops in the sae space to imitate natural ecosystems.
What is polyculture?
This term is used to describe the loss of soil quality an dfertility due to overuse, erosion, and depletion of nutrients.
What is soil degradation?
This nutrient is made up of amino acids and is found in animals foods and some plants, helping build and maintain body structures.
What are proteins?
More than 99.7% of human food comes from this source.
What is land?
Thsi country is one of the largest food producers due to its large and vast amount of cropland.
What is the United States?
Raising livestock requires more of this compared to growing crops.
What is land?
This essential farming input can imporve crop yields but, when overused, can lead to water pollution.
What are fertilizers?
A deficiency in essential vitamins and minerals can lead to this condition.
What is malnutrition?
This term is used to descrive how not all land is equally productive due to irrigation, fertilizers, erosion, and other factors.
What is land productivity?
This term refers to the practice of cultivating land temporarily and then abandoning it.
What is shifting cultivation?
This type of land use is the only practical options in areas where crop planting is not possible.
What is ranching?
A diet higher in this type of food requires more land and resources compared to a plant-based diet.
What is meat?
The amiunt of energu that is available from food is expressed in this unit, defined as the energy needed to raise 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius.
What is a calorie?
This type of diet provides higher calories per land area as it consists of primary producers.
What is a plant-based diet?
Cropping systems depend on these contraints, which include resources and beliefs.
What are available resources and the philosophy of the farmer?
This agricultural system mimics natural ecosystems by integrating crops, trees, and sometimes livestock to enhance biodiversity and sustainability.
What is forestry?
This argicultural challenge occurs when nutrients are depleted from the soil faster than they can be replensihed.
What is soil exhaustion?