definitions

Question 1

von thunens land use model

Answer 1

based on 1) cost of land

2) distance to get food to market

Question 2

soil erosion

Answer 2

based on 1) cost of land

2) distance to get food to market

Question 3

soil degradation

Answer 3

change in soil health status - reduced capacity to provide goods and services

Question 4

land degradation

Answer 4

all negative changes in the capacity to provide goods and services

Question 5

desertification

Answer 5

irreversible change of the land to a point that can no longer be recovered for original use.

Question 6

degradation causes

Answer 6

deforestation, overgrazing, agrochemical

Question 7

freight farms

Answer 7

old meat shipping containers into farms – leafy greens, herbs, up to 1100 heads of lettuce/week

Question 8

urban cultivator

Answer 8

a mini freight farm

Question 9

rooftop beehives

Answer 9

u of w, hotel fort garry

Question 10

world water usage

Answer 10

70% agriculture, 20% industry 10% domestic

Question 11

oceans

Answer 11

Oceans like a human pantry, but also like a garbage bin

Question 12

CAFOs

Answer 12

concentrated animal feeding operations, animals live in dense unnatural area’s.

Question 13

additives

Answer 13

90% of food budget=processed

• substances intended to change the food in some way before it is sold
• improves look, taste, and shelf life

Question 14

antibiotic

Answer 14

to kill bacteria in food, more cow in area=more waste=more E. Coli

Question 15

hormone

Answer 15

animals grow faster and bigger
2/3 of cattle injected with them in the US
-concern they might be harmful

Question 16

pesticides

Answer 16

over 1 billion tons used every year

Question 17

bananas

Answer 17

80% traded by 5 companies

Question 18

lobster

Answer 18

1800s-1900s fed toservants, prisoners, cats
served on trains to non coastal americans as exotic meat, started to ask for it off train
-WW2 not rationed

Question 19

loppe

Answer 19

spider – (lobster)

Question 20

calcium paradox

Answer 20

highest dairy consumption nations=highest rates of bone fractures

• recognized by WHO
• 75% of world pop unable to digest milk

Question 21

dairy farming

Answer 21

dairy farming more environmentally destructive than beef farming
-3785 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk

Question 22

non milk calcium

Answer 22

healthier and more easily absorbed

Question 23

ivory coast

Answer 23

40% of worlds cocao

Question 24

fishers

Answer 24

slave labourers, 100s of trapped men work, from Burma and kidnapped or tricked into fishing

Question 25

sea dead zone

Answer 25

low oxygen areas where marine life cannot live, fertilizers runoff into water=algae

• -algae die=absorb oxygen
• misissipi drainage basin

Question 26

k cups

Answer 26

Kuerig: (All k-cups sold in 2014 were laid end to end=circle earth 10.5 times – cups/pods not recyclable or biodegradable

Question 27

new plastic bottles

Answer 27

plastic bottle from sugar cane not petroleum

Question 28

avg canadian throws out

Answer 28

throws out 10% of frsh produce (2.5 billion $ of waste per year in Canada

Question 29

GMO

Answer 29

70% of processed foods contain Genetically modified ingredients

Question 30

children workers

Answer 30

used in agriculture - cocao

Question 31

sun chips

Answer 31

had a biodegradable bag, got bad reviews because noisy, went back to normal bags