Organic Farming
Food grown and processed using no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides
What is Organic Farming?
The Agricultural Practice of growing a single crop over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years.
What is monoculture?
Another name for the Green Revolution.
What is the third agricultural revolution?
Substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests.
What is pesticides?
The second step in Integrated Pest Management
What is Prevention?
Lower Yields
Agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture.
What is Polyculture?
Hunter gatherer society to agriculture based.
What is the first agricultural revolution?
Effects both in the immediate and long term.
What are the effects of pesticide use?
The level at which pest control must be monitored and identified
What is Monitor and Identify Pests?
Irradiation, Sewage Sludge, and Genetic Engineering.
What does Organic Farming prohibit?
An Agricultural System in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned.
What is Shifting Cultivation?
Late 1600s, started finding ways to make farming more efficient and really start selective breeding of crops.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
Children are having longterm effects due to the use of pesticides.
What are neurodevelopmental effects?
Used to disrupt pest mating
What is highly target chemicals such as pheromones?
High Costs involved in the process
What is the main disadvantage of Organic Farming?
Can lead to the quicker spread of diseases or pests, where a uniform crop is susceptible to a pathogen.
What is monoculture?
Began in Mexico with wheat, then India with
rice.
What is where the agricultural revolution started?
As a first line of pest control, IPM programs work to manage the crop, lawn, or indoor space to prevent pests from becoming a threat.
What is Prevention?
Set Action Thresholds
What is a point at which pest
populations or environmental
conditions indicate that pest control
action must be taken?
Organic diets we know lead to less pesticide and antibiotic exposure, but nutritionally, they are about the same.
What is are Organic foods really that much healthier than regular?
Revolves around the cultivation of single crops such as tea, rubber, coconut, spices, coffee, and fruit crops.
What is plantation farming?
-Won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal
-Worked as a microbiologist originally, then conducted
research on pesticides, DDT, and eventually received a PhD in plant pathology and genetics
Who is Norman Borlaug?
Farmers in the USA lost 7% of their crops to pests around these years.
What is the 1940s?
The Last Resort of IPM
Broadcast Spraying