Future of Food key terms

Question 1

define food security

Answer 1

All people at all times having physical and economic access to nutritious food that meets dietary requirements.

Question 2

What are the 3 pillars of food security?

Answer 2

Food access
Food availability
Food utilisation

Question 3

What is the use of GHI?

Answer 3

Global Hunger Index, scale of 1-100
- Compare countries
- Adapt to inequality via investment
- Identify areas that need help
- Look at undernourishment and child stunting.

Question 4

What are the globalised factors in the food supply system?

Answer 4

Processing
Transporting/Distribution
Production
Wastage and disposal
Consumption

Question 5

What is difference between pastoral and arable farming?

Answer 5

Pastoral involves livestock.
Arable is crops.

Question 6

What is carrying capacity?

Answer 6

Maximum threshold that area can support. If exceeded = unsustainable land degradation.

Question 7

What is difference between subsistence and commercial farming?

Answer 7

Subsistence = owning land for local consumption, vulnerable to poverty and insecurity.
Commercial = Capitalism approach

Question 8

Extensive v Intensive

Answer 8

Extensive = large scale commercialised.
Intensive = small scale to get more yield per hectare

Question 9

What is shifting cultivation versus sedentary technique?

Answer 9

A sustainable technique that rotates fields.
Sedentary farms the same area every year.