strategies to ensure food security

Question 1

What is the definition of food security?

Answer 1

When people have access to enough safe and nutritious food

Question 2

What are GM crops

Answer 2

organisms whose genetic makeup has been altered using genetic engineering technology

Question 3

What do GM crops do?

Answer 3

Some change the character of the organism by making them : plant resistant -

Question 4

What are the 3 strategies to improve food security?

Answer 4

Increasing food production, reducing post production losses, reducing growth in demand

Question 5

How to increase food production

Answer 5

Increasing livestock and pasture productivity through improving pasture fertilisation, feed quality and veterinary care as well as raising im0roved breeds and raising improved breeds and using rotational grazing, which will increase yields without agricultural land expansion k

Improving fish supplies as fish is an important source of protein and nutrition and an important part of increasing fish supply is the development of aquaculture

Question 6

How to reduce post production losses

Answer 6

Improving post harvest practices
After a crop has ripened a variety of functions see performers includ8ng harvesting, drying threshing, storage, transportation and marketing. Inefficient practices at each stage may allow crops to be contaminated by microorganisms, chemicals, excessive moisture, fluctuating temp extremes, mechanical damage or ineffective storage. These practices compromise food safety and contribute greatly to food loss

Training and guidanc4 to farmers can reduce crop susceptibility to contamination

Redistributing food