Future Of Food Flashcards
What is GFSI?
The global food security index.
What is the purpose of the GFSI?
To assess which countries are most and least vulnerable food insecurity.
What are the global food security pillars?
Availability, Utilisation, Economic Accessibility.
What is availability?
Availability is the amount of available food to the affected population and whether there is enough for everybody.
What is utilisation?
It is whether the nutritional intake represents a balanced diet of necessary foods.
What is economic accessibility?
There may or not be available food stuffs but its whether the food is cost appropriate in relation to the general populations household income.
What makes the food system a complex web?
The food system is a complex web because each country has different weather conditions, soil conditions, GDP, etc.
What are the requirements for crop growth?
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.
What is the Malthusian hypothesis?
Malthus suggested there will be a crisis point at which the global population will exceed the global food production.
According to Malthus what will happen at the crises point?
Famine - especially prominent in low income developing countries.
War and conflict - over food stuffs, resources and availability of land.
What is the Neo-Malthusian approach?
Suggests that we should control the global population pre-empting it exceeding the global food production output.
What is the Boserupian hypothesis?
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.
What evidence is there of Boserup’s hypothesis?
Genetically modified crops, land leasing, trade agreements to lower cost of transportation.
What is food miles?
The distance and time it has taken for the crops to get from the growing fields to the consumer.
Why is there an increase in demand for food production?
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.
What is subsistence farming?
Farming enough for the local people that will be consuming their own produce.
What is commercial farming?
Corporations purchasing land to use for large-scale farming with use fertilisers and chemicals to promote faster growth.
What are genetically modified crops?
Crops that have been modified to withstand extreme weather conditions such as being able to adapt to different weather conditions whilst still growing?
What is land grabbing?
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.
Why is land grabbing a problem?
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.
