Future Of Food

Question 1

What is GFSI?

Answer 1

The global food security index.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the GFSI?

Answer 2

To assess which countries are most and least vulnerable food insecurity.

Question 3

What are the global food security pillars?

Answer 3

Availability, Utilisation, Economic Accessibility.

Question 4

What is availability?

Answer 4

Availability is the amount of available food to the affected population and whether there is enough for everybody.

Question 5

What is utilisation?

Answer 5

It is whether the nutritional intake represents a balanced diet of necessary foods.

Question 6

What is economic accessibility?

Answer 6

There may or not be available food stuffs but its whether the food is cost appropriate in relation to the general populations household income.

Question 7

What makes the food system a complex web?

Answer 7

The food system is a complex web because each country has different weather conditions, soil conditions, GDP, etc.

Question 8

What are the requirements for crop growth?

Answer 8

Suitable soil - needs to be grown in nutrient rich soil.
Water - needs water for plant growth and repair.
Light - light is needed for photosynthesis.
Temperature - needs to be an optimal temperature.

Question 9

What is the Malthusian hypothesis?

Answer 9

Malthus suggested there will be a crisis point at which the global population will exceed the global food production.

Question 10

According to Malthus what will happen at the crises point?

Answer 10

Famine - especially prominent in low income developing countries.
War and conflict - over food stuffs, resources and availability of land.

Question 11

What is the Neo-Malthusian approach?

Answer 11

Suggests that we should control the global population pre-empting it exceeding the global food production output.

Question 12

What is the Boserupian hypothesis?

Answer 12

Boserup suggested that every time the global population comes close to exceeding the global food production output we will pioneer a solution to be able to feed the increasing demand.

Question 13

What evidence is there of Boserup’s hypothesis?

Answer 13

Genetically modified crops, land leasing, trade agreements to lower cost of transportation.

Question 14

What is food miles?

Answer 14

The distance and time it has taken for the crops to get from the growing fields to the consumer.

Question 15

Why is there an increase in demand for food production?

Answer 15

Growing population but also because of the decreasing amount of available land to grow crops on and previous fields have been ripped of their nutrient rich layer.

Question 16

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 16

Farming enough for the local people that will be consuming their own produce.

Question 17

What is commercial farming?

Answer 17

Corporations purchasing land to use for large-scale farming with use fertilisers and chemicals to promote faster growth.

Question 18

What are genetically modified crops?

Answer 18

Crops that have been modified to withstand extreme weather conditions such as being able to adapt to different weather conditions whilst still growing?

Question 19

What is land grabbing?

Answer 19

Where large corporations and TNC’s purchase land with optimal growing conditions to use for their own personal gain through means such as commercial farming.

Question 20

Why is land grabbing a problem?

Answer 20

It involves AC’s purchasing land in LIDC’s mainly where there is optimal weather conditions which means there is a decrease in available land for the LIDC’s to grow their own crops which are rich with nutrients.