Agricultural 1

Question 1

What can the food industry be spilt up into?

Answer 1

1. Production
2. Processing and packing
3. Disturbation and retail
4. Consumption

Question 2

What are factors in Food Security

Answer 2

• Utilisation of food
• Access to food
• Availblity of food

Question 3

Food security defination

Answer 3

“All people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutirous food that meets their dietary needs and food prefernces for a active and healthy lifestyle”

Question 4

What is the current state of our global food system?

Answer 4

Doesn’t provide
* Enough food
* Right type of food
* Adequete nuitrition

Question 5

FOA State of Food security and nutrition 2022

Answer 5

700-850 million are hungry

Question 6

What are hungry people linked to?

Answer 6

Natural disasters and conflict/political instablity

Question 7

(blank) of adults are overweight globally

Answer 7

39%

Question 8

2 billion people…

Answer 8

affected by vitamin and micronutrient deficenices

Question 9

Agricultural practices which contribute to Greenhouse Gases

Answer 9

• Biomass burning
• Manure management
• Fertilizers
• Rice production
• Soil respiration

Question 10

Spybean

Answer 10

• Used for livestock feed
• Unable to grow in the UK
• Has to be transported from South America
• Causes deforestation

Question 11

Consequences of agricultural water

Answer 11

• Declining stream flows
• Drained wetlands
• Subsidence

Question 12

What can irritigated agriculture impact?

Answer 12

• Local albedo
• Local transrespiration and evaporation rates

Question 13

Aral sea

Answer 13

Caused by land use changes and irritigation in Kazakhastan and Uzbekistan

Question 14

What produces methane?

Answer 14

• Agricultural bacteria
• Livestock
• Biomass burning

Question 15

How to keep up with food demands?

Answer 15

Increase cropland or cropyield

Question 16

Green revolution (1960-1970)

Answer 16

• Led to more than a 200% increase in crop production
• Synethetic fertilizers
• Expanding and improving irrigation systems
• Crop protection
• Crop breeding

Question 17

How to improve Livestock yields?

Answer 17

• “factory farms”
• Fattening feeds
• Restriction of movement
• Antibiotics and drugs
• Improved breeds that breed faster and fatten quickly

Question 18

What are the side effects of intensive farming?

Answer 18

• Water pollution
• Air pollution
• Soil pollution

Question 19

What can excess nitrate led to?

Answer 19

• Acid rain
• Eutrophication
• Reduced biodiversity and soil health

Question 20

(Blank) of global cereal production takes place in irritgated land

Answer 20

More than 40%

Question 21

What are the side effects of irritigation?

Answer 21

• Rising water tables
• Salinization
• Waterlogging

Question 22

Impact of pesticides?

Answer 22

• Resistance in target species
• Harm non-target species
• Lower biodiversity
• Impact human health

Question 23

Pesticide alternatives

Answer 23

• Environmental control (removing nests and draining host wetlands)
• Genetic and sterile male control
• Behaviour control (phermones or repelling chemicals)
• Resistance crop/livestock breeding
• Biological control (may become a invasive species)

Question 24

Impacts of GM crops

Answer 24

• Clones and monocultures
• Lower biodiversity
• Can become invasive
• Side effects on human health
• Expensive

Question 25

Impacts of aquafarming

Answer 25

• Habitat destruction
• native fish displacement
• Diseases
• Water contamination