Food Security Flashcards
Yemen - Mexico (18 cards)
How many Yemenis are food insecure
18 million
What is food insecurity
Households facing difficulties accessing sufficient, varied, and nutritious food
What 3 factors are causing food insecurity in Yemen
- Damage to airports and roads
- Fuel shortages and import restrictions
- Flash floods and locus in 2016 limited the production of food
How many people died of the cholera outbreak in 2017 Yemen
2000
When did the famine hit Yemen
2018
What is Boserupian theory
Necessity is the mother of creation - innovation would solve the depletion of resources recognised in 1965 e.g. Fertilisers
What is Malthusian theory
The arithmetic growth of resources in the long run would be out paced by exponential growth of population - More and more land being used up to produce food will as the population continues to grow recognised in 1798
What was Malthus’s solution
Moral Restraint
What is Neo-Malthusian
Ehrlich wrote the Population Bomb in 1968 explaining how overpopulation will cause society ending disaster in 1970s and 1980s
Anti-Malthusian
Natural resources are infinite supply as innovation produces more or develop alternatives or remove dependency upon such resources - Cornucopian theory
When did Norman Borlaug first arrive in Mexico
1944
What was the green revolution
The development of high-yielding seeds through genetic engineering and precision agriculture
Advantages of the Green Revolution
Yields doubled to quadrupled
Farmers income increased
Diet of rural communities varied
Shorter growing season allowing introduction of new crops
Disadvantages of the Green Revolution
High reliance upon fertiliser and pesticides
Not available to low income farmers
Mechanisation increased rural unemployment
Salinisation has become a problem along with irrigation area expansion
When was Mexico self sufficient
1953
When did Mexico begin to export
1963
What was the final form of wheat created and its characteristics
Semi dwarf wheat - shorter sturdier stems and enhanced resistance to lodging (falling over)
