Chapter 7

Question 1

Food security

Answer 1

= the guarantee of an adequate, reliable, and available food supply to all people at all times

Question 2

The 5 a’s of food security?

Answer 2

Availability , Affordability , Accessibility , Acceptability , Adequacy

Question 3

Traditional Agriculture

Answer 3

cultivating, harvesting, storing and distributing crops was done by human and animal muscle power.

Question 4

Polycultures

Answer 4

many types of crops in one farm (associated with traditional agriculture)

Question 5

Industrial Agriculture

Answer 5

horses moved to machines and more powerful means of cultivating.

Question 6

Monocultures

Answer 6

single crops in straight rows

Question 7

Extensification

Answer 7

bringing more land into production

Question 8

Intensification

Answer 8

better productivity per unit of land

Question 9

Genetic engineering

Answer 9

laboratory manipulation of genetic material

Question 10

Recombinant DNA

Answer 10

DNA patched together from the DNA of multiple organisms