Unit 2 - AOS 2 - Maintaining food and water security

Question 1

Organizational barriers and its enabler

Answer 1

BARRIER
Restrictive produce specifications related to suitable size range, attractiveness.
ENABLER
They are selling for that are not under specifications (cheaper)

BARRIER
Restrictive food specifications
ENABLER
Organizations can find ways to use produce that cannot be sold primarily (broccoli scraps) but change it so it can be sold (nutrient powder)

Question 2

Political barrier and its enabler example

Answer 2

BARRIER
Food distributers throw away food before use by date
ENABLER
Change laws to mandate that food is never thrown away when safe to eat.

Question 3

Sustainability definition

Answer 3

“The ability or capacity of something to be maintained or to maintain itself”

Question 4

Sustainable development

Answer 4

“Development that meets the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

Question 5

Sustainability principles

Answer 5

1. conservation of biodiversity and ecological integrity
2. efficiency of resource use
3. Intergenerational equity (future generations)
4. Intragenerational equity (current generation)
5. Precautionary principle
6. User pays principle

Question 6

Ecological footprint

Answer 6

“Impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods consumer and to assimilate the wastes generated by each person.

Question 7

Biocapacity

Answer 7

“The ability of the environment to provide the resources we need to live”

Question 8

Ecological overshoot

Answer 8

“When a population uses more resources than the environment can provide”

Question 9

Carbon footprint

Answer 9

“Shorthand for the amount of carbon being emitted by an activity organization, over time or per-use”

Question 10

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) aim?

Answer 10

“Aims to quantify all environmental impacts of a produce over its entire lifecycle.”

Question 11

What can the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) be used for?

Answer 11

• Seek alternative materials
• Use other methods
• Identifies materials and energy used, water consumption and the types of quantities of waste.

Question 11

Options for decreasing water demand and improving water security

Answer 11

• More plants = more water conserved
• Water tanks
• Green roofs = cools area
• Using recycled water