delineating the food system

Question 1

Effects of nitrogen in the atmosphere

Answer 1

Algal blooms
Coastal dead zones
Ozone pollution
Biodiversity loss
Global warming

Question 2

nitrogen role in climate change

Answer 2

-ground level ozone
-nitrous oxide

Question 3

solutions

Answer 3

Changed farming practices in wealthy countries
Precision farming techniques
Cover crops
Changes in meat production
Better deployment of NOX scrubbing technologies
Renewable energy sources
Biofuel (bioethanol production) is an issue

Question 4

Reasons why current food system is not sustainable

Answer 4

-Food production is appropriating increasing unsustainable amounts of natural resources with harmful impacts on ecology, economy and society
-Food production leads to pollution with unsustainable impacts on biodiversity and human health
-Intensive production leads to erosion and decreasing soil quality with negative feedback on further increases