DandD test Flashcards
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Define food security
Food security is a state where all people at all times have access to enough safe, nutritious food to sustain a healthy life.
Describe the four factors that are required for food security
availability, access, utilization, and stability
Suggest why different levels of food security occur around the world
Population growth, climate change, poverty and conflict
Differentiate between human and natural factors that influence food security
Human factors:
Population growth, technology,
Natural factors:
Climate change, natural disasters, soil degradation
Describe how natural disasters can influence food security
Natural disasters influence food security by damaging crops, infostructure and disrupting food supply chains.
Provide an example of how a natural disaster has influenced food security
Hurricane maria significantly affected food security because it damaged crops, infrastructure and disrupted networks.
Describe how poverty can influence food security
Limiting the access to nutritious food and for household to afford food.
Provide an example of how poverty contributes to food insecurity
Low income families
Define acute food insecurity
Individuals face food deprivation that will immediately threaten their lives
Describe how changes in population can lead to food insecurity
When population increases demand for food goes up rapidly which can lead to food shortages.
Describe how conflict in a region could lead to food insecurity
Conflict could destroy crops and create soil degradation and less access to supermarkets and markets.
Describe how land degradation could lead to food insecurity
Reducing the amount of quality food produced and increasing the price of food.
Describe how water scarcity could lead to food insecurity
Not being able to water the crops which will lead to impacting agriculture production and other economic challenges.
Describe how climate change can have a positive and a negative growing
Positive impact: A country could be in a drought then there could be flooding in that area which will impact food production.
conditions of food and the impact this has on food security
Negative impact: There could be flooding in areas which could drown crops and lead to food insecurity
Describe how extreme weather events can lead to food insecurity
Extreme weather events could lead to food insecurity by drowning plants and damaging infrastructure.
Describe how pest invasion can lead to food insecurity
Can disrupt agriculture production leading to food insecurity.
