CONWORLD - LESSON 7

Question 1

It is defined as the availability of food and one’s access to it.

Answer 1

Food Security

Question 2

True or False: A household is considered food secure when its occupants live in hunger or fear of starvation.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What are the four (4) Pillars of Food Security?

Answer 3

Food Availability
Food Accessibility
Food Utilization
Food Stability

Question 4

Individuals have adequate income to purchase appropriate food needed to maintain consumption of adequate diet and nutritional level.

Answer 4

Food Accessibility

Question 5

It describes the temporal dimensions and nutrition security, respective of the time-frame over which food and nutrition security is being considered.

Answer 5

Food Stability

Question 6

It is the ability of human body to ingest and metabolize food through adequate diet, clean water, good sanitation and health care to reach a state of nutritional well-being.

Answer 6

Food Utilization

Question 7

Sufficient quantities of appropriate necessary types of food.

Answer 7

Food Availability

Question 8

Enumerate the four (4) things affecting food security today.

Answer 8

Global Water Crisis
Climate Change
Land Degradation
Greedy Land Deals

Question 9

Rising global temperatures are beginning to have a ripple effect on crop yields, forest resources, water supplies and altering the balance of nature.

Answer 9

Climate change

Question 10

Water table reserves are falling in many countries including Northern China, the United States, and India due to widespread over pumping and irrigation.

Answer 10

Global water crisis

Question 11

Intensive farming to a vicious cycle of exhaustion of soil fertility and decline of agricultural yields.

Answer 11

Land Degradation

Question 12

Corporations and governments buying rights to millions of acres of agricultural land in developing countries to secure their own long-term food supplies.

Answer 12

Greedy land deals

Question 13

It is an Act liberalizing the importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice and for other purposes.

Answer 13

Republic Act No. 11203 or the the Rice Tariffication Law

Question 14

Republic Act No. 11203 or the the Rice Tariffication Law was signed into law by?

Answer 14

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte

Question 15

When was the Republic Act No. 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law signed into law?

Answer 15

February 14, 2019

Question 16

It is allocated for the procurement of farm machinery and equipment, rice development, propagation and promotion, as well as expanded rice credit and extension services

Answer 16

Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)

Question 17

True or False: According to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) rice tariffication will directly benefit farmers and the poor through lower rice prices and increased government assistance to the agricultural sector.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

It the state of being reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

Answer 18

Food Insecurity

Question 19

What are the five (5) impacts of food insecurity?

Answer 19

Undernourishment
Malnutrition
Wasting
Social Unrest
Rising Prices

Question 20

People can’t consume enough calories, and other nutrients for them to do every day work and task.

Answer 20

Undernourishment

Question 21

People can’t eat enough amount of right and nutritious food to keep them healthy.

Answer 21

Malnutrition

Question 22

It is the serious type of hunger. A severe malnutrition that leads to too much weight loss and at risk of diseases.

Answer 22

Wasting

Question 23

Everyone needs to eat so when food supplies are low, people have to fight for their survival.

Answer 23

Social Unrest

Question 24

When there’s less food available, the price of that certain food increases.

Answer 24

Rising Prices

Question 25

What are the strategies to increase food security?

Answer 25

Irrigation
Use of New Technology
Support from the Government
Promote Farming to Everyone

Question 26

It can double the amount of food produced. Some parts of the world still do not have irrigation systems.

Answer 26

Irrigation

Question 27

True or False: Using machines can really help in producing and harvesting crops fast and easy.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False: Government must support farmers financially, and provide tools and machines for farming.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

True or False: Everyone must know the proper way of farming and the beauty of doing it.

Answer 29

True