Green Revolution Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
An introduction of newly developed wheat and rice seeds in Latin America and into the irrigated farm land of Asia
Norman Borlaug Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
SUPPORT The Green Revolution: Waging a war against hunger
he used biotechnology to b...
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Green Revolution Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
An introduction of newly developed wheat and rice seeds in Latin America and into the
irrigated farm land of Asia
Norman Borlaug Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
SUPPORT The Green Revolution: Waging a war against hunger
he used biotechnology to begin the green revolution 1943 wanted to improve agricultural
techniques, creating GMO of wheat, rice, maize, hope these would rescue 3rd world countries
from starvation. it worked! increase in revenue even bettered farming (they could buy
machines and more supplies it was good)
GMOs Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
• Food modification at the cellular level: Manipulation of genetic material by
adding/deleting/changing segments of its DNA in a laboratory.
• Goal: To produce certain "codes" and "proteins" within an organism that will make it resistant
to disease/drought as well as higher nutritional value by using the traits of another organism:
Transgenic Organisms (Flvr Savr Tomato, 1994)
• Results: Not Really Known/Precautionary Principle/60 countries have either restricted or
banned GMOs entirely.
• Concerns: Health factors/ Monocultures/Super Crops= Super Pests and Weeds/Reduction of
Biodiversity/Loss of Native Species/Food Supply dominated by a few agribusiness that rely on
GM products
Thomas Malthus Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
-Predicted overpopulation and how we would not have enough food to provide with the
number of people we have in the world.
..., Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened
future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases in
agricultural production.
exponential population growth and linear food production
Exponential Population Growth Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
-Thomas Malthus
-Food supply is linear/population growth is exponential
-limited resource environment and growing population
CSA's Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
Community Supported Agriculture
---> The consumer buys a portion of the business
----> In exchange for periodical food distribution (monthly basis)
, Biopiracy Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
VANDANNA SHIVA
-Bio Piracy-taking ownership, and stealing the rights of seeds to the community
Permaculture Farming Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
Permaculture is a systems approach. It has many branches that include but are not limited to
ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated
water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, regenerative and self-
maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.[1][2] The term
permaculture (as a systematic method) was first coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David
Holmgren in 1978. The word permaculture originally referred to "permanent agriculture" [3]
but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture," as it was seen that social aspects were
integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming
philosophy. FARMING IN A MICROCOISM - WENDELL BERRY
Food Sovereignty Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
Vandanna Shiva
-land grabs takes away someones food sovereignty (same concept of water grabbing)
-having the right to grow and manage your own food
-the right of local communities to define their own farming and fisheries systems, as opposed to
having food systems defined by global, free trade economic forces
-the right of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically
sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture
systems.
Fair Trade Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS
the producer and consumer have a say on the price of a particular good/service
The Commons Correct Answer: THE COMMONS
is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural
materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth
• These resources are held in common, not owned privately
Tragedy of the Commons Correct Answer: TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly
available but limited resources, creating disaster for the entire community
Garrett Hardin Correct Answer: TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
-Created the theory "The Tragedy of The Commons"
-Individual incentive which overwhelms and depletes the assets
-Lack of excludability
an American ecologist/economist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation
-rational people will exploit shared resources (commons).
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