Module 8.1 Flashcards
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having physical, social, and economic access to sufficient
safe and nutritious food
* We currently grow enough food to feed everyone on Earth.
* However, food insecurity is a problem for over a billion people due to:
* Insufficient funds
* Inadequate distribution
* Prevention of food delivery
* War and protracted crises that interfere with agriculture and food distribution
* Discrimination that keeps food from reaching marginalized groups
- Food security:
a locale where access
to affordable, fresh, and nutritious
food is limited or nonexistent.
* In 2018, 37 million Americans lacked
food security.
* Includes college students
* At some institutions, as high as 67%
Food desert
a state of poor health
that results from an inappropriate
caloric intake (too many or too few
calories) or deficiency in one or more
nutrients
* Can serve as a prelude to many
diseases
* Example: blindness as a result of a
vitamin A deficiency
* Undernourishment: when a person
does not have enough to eat
Malnutrition
a plant-breeding program in the mid-1900s that
dramatically increased crop yields and paved the way for mechanized,
large-scale agriculture
* Began in the late 1960s
* Global population was soaring but food production was plummeting,
especially in India and China.
* In addition to enhanced technologies, new high-yield plants were
introduced.
Green Revolution
farming methods that rely on technology, synthetic
chemical inputs, and economies of scale to increase productivity and
profits
Industrial agriculture
farming method in which a single variety of one crop is
planted, typically in rows over huge swaths of land, with large inputs of
fertilizer, pesticides, and water. Usually a genetically uniform crop
(monoculture) is planted
Monoculture
the
ability of an individual nation
to grow enough food to feed
its people
Food self-sufficiency:
the ability
of an individual nation to
control its own food system
Food sovereignty
