Food Pronence Flashcards
(34 cards)
Definition of food Provence
- The origin of food, where it comes from
Definition of food security
-Having access to the information about where food comes from and assurance that food safe to consume
Definition of primary industry
- An industry that harvests raw matrices from nature including agriculture
Definition of intensive farming
A large scale operation where profitability and efficiency are prioritised
Definition of organic farming
- A type of farming that focus on producing food in way that minimises harm to the Environment.
Definition of arable farming
Farms that grow crops such wheat, barley and oats
Definition of pest control
-Methods used to prevent or control pest e. g. Insects rodentsthat would harm the crop
Definition of yield
- the produce of a crop
Definition of aquaculture
-Fish farming
Definition of sustainability
- A way of producing and consuming food that protects the environment and economy
Examples of food that are grown
- Cereals
-Fruit
-Oil seeds - potatoes
-Vegtables
Examples of food that are reared
-Beef
- pork
-goat & kid
-Poltrey
- veal
Examples of foods that are caught
- Fish
- game
Food Provence means
- Knowing where food was grown reared or caught
-Knowing how food was transported - knowing how food was produced
Food Provence helps to
- protect animal welfare
- develop a more sustainable food system
- maintain food culture
-increase food knowledge
How is food grown
- Preparing the soil
- Sowing the seeds
- Watering
- Fertilising
- Weeding
- Protecting from pests
- Harvesting
- Separating & inspecting
- Storage
Common places for growing crops
- Fields
- Polytunnels
- Orchards
Uses of chemical when growing plants
- Pesticides
- chemical used to destroy pests - Fertilisers
- improve the soil
Growing organic products
- Strict regulations
- pesticides and fertilisers are not used
Buying locally grown foods
- Beneficial to the local economy and environment
Gm foods
-Changed to enable better growth, resistance to pests and abil-tig to coke in extreme weather
Ways animas are reared & examples
- Field
- animals have the ability  to roam freely - Factory
- battery hen factory - intensive farming is common with hen rearing
- milking factory - cattle can also be reared in this manner - Organic farming
-Organic animals are not subject to indoor rearing
Characteristics of intensive farming
- Pesticides are used to control pests
- Mechanic agriculture
- high yield crops
- chemical used to enrich soil
- animals kep indoors
Characteristics of organic farming
- Labour inteside agriculture
-Hand weeding & natural pest control
-Crop rotation linked to seasons - animals given space to roam freely
