Sustainability and Agriculture

Question 1

What is industrial agriculture?

Answer 1

• fossil fuel powered (ex. tractors, irrigation)
• A lot of food is being grown but not distributed equally

Question 2

What is food security

Answer 2

Guarantee of an adequate. reliable, and available food supply to all people at all times
- 4 Pillars: (Availability, Access, Utilization, Stability) AASU

Question 3

What did agricultural development cause?

Answer 3

• being able to cook things = eating more calories = brain development.
• Hunting and gathering, traditional (structured) agriculture, industrial agriculture (last 100 years)

Question 4

Where does food foot print come from?

Answer 4

1. GHGs
   - Processing
   - Methane
   - Transportation
2. Water
   - Irrigation
   - food
   - washing
3. Waste
   - Packaging
   - Post consumption handling

Question 5

What is waste?

Answer 5

• items people no longer have a use for, which they either intend to or already discarded
• doesn’t have to be waste if it is used for something else

Question 6

What is waste diverted?

Answer 6

things that didn’t go to landfills (composting and recycling)

Question 7

Steps of waste managment

Answer 7

1. Refuse
2. Reduce
3. Reuse
4. Recycle and compost
5. Recover (energy)
6. Residual management

Question 8

what is SWRMS

Answer 8

• 1995 Solid waste resource management strategy
• recognition of solid waste as a resource
• Consistant and equitable enforcement
• education
• shared responsibility
• regional cooperation

Question 9

Benefits of SWRMS

Answer 9

• Waste was cut by 50% since 2000
• Saving $31 million a year in social, economic, and environmental areas