Vocabulary
Chronically Undernourished
Receiving less than the minimum 2,200 kcal on average
Arable land
Land used for agricultural use
Cover cropping
Any crop grown to cover the soil and may be incorporated into the soil later for enrichment.
What are the 6 strategies?
Contour plowing, strip farming, planting perennial species, inter planting 2 crops, leaving crop residue, reduced tillage systems.
What are the 4 strategies?
Avoid fertilizers, crop-rotation, nitrogen-fixing plants, mixed cropping
Food Security
The ability to obtain sufficient food on a day-to-day basis
Erosion
Removal and transport of different sediments due to rain, wind, and animals.
Crop rotation
Planting a different crop on a particular piece of land each growing season.
Contour plowing
Plowing across the hill rather than up and down
organic food
Grown without artificial pesticides and only natural fertilizer
Famines
Large scale food shortages, massive starvation, social disruption, and economic chaos.
Sheet erosion
Even erosion of land across a wide area
Conservation tillage
Means any minimal tillage system that leaves sufficient crop residue to cover the soil surface by at least 30%.
Strip farming
The planting of different kinds of crops in alternating strips along the land contours
What helps to reduce the pesticides?
Crop rotation and biological controls
Obese
Seriously overweight
Rill erosion
It happens when water flows down a hill
Agroforestry
International integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems to create environmental, economic, and social benefits.
Terracing
Shaping the land to create level shelves of earth to hold water and soil
Integrated Pest Management
Flexible, ecologically based strategy that is applied at specific times and aimed at specific crops and pests
Malnourishment
Nutritional imbalance caused by a lack of specific dietary components or an inability to absorb or utilize essential nutrients
Gully erosion
Wide channels, they happen very rapidly. They need to be at leas 30 cm or deeper. They occur because of poor land management. They also occur because of weather and slope.
Animal integration
It allows animals and sheep to secure their energy needs from plants instead of supplements. It helps improve carbon within the soil
… eat local organically grown food.
Economic Thresholds
The point at which potential-economic damage justifies pest-control expenditures