Unit 3

Question 0

Famine

Answer 0

A temporary failure of food production or distribution systems in a particular region that leads to increased mortality due to starvation and diseases that results from lack of food

Question 1

Malnutrition

Answer 1

Condition in which damage to health is caused by a diet that includes either too much or too little of one or more essential nutrients over an extended period

Question 2

Creating an unofficial modern form of colonialism

Answer 2

Neo- colonialism

Question 3

Agricultural science has shifted from the green revolution to?

Answer 3

Gene revolution

Question 4

What is the green revolution?

Answer 4

When agricultural research station was established in Mexico to develop more productive varieties of wheat.

Question 5

Concerns about the green revolution

Answer 5

Based on a western model for agriculture.
Dramatic loss of genetic diversity.
Not as environmentally sustainable as traditional agriculture.
Motives does not address the root cause of hunger.

Question 6

Walt Rostow’s five stages of economic development

Answer 6

Stage 1: traditional society
Stage 2: establishing the precondition for takeoff 
Stage 3: economic takeoff
Stage 4: the drive to maturity
Stage 5: high mass consumption

Question 7

Free trade

Answer 7

Trade between countries, free from governmental restrictions or duties

Question 8

Fair trade

Answer 8

Trade carried on under a fair-trade agreement

Question 9

Positives of GMO’s

Answer 9

Longer growing season.
Increase productivity.
Resistance.
Making lots of money.

Question 10

Negatives of GMO’s

Answer 10

Environment.
Loss of crop diversity.
Decline in family farm.
Patenting life.
Sustainable-natural way
Health impacts

Question 11

Worlds vision’s four key elements of food security

Answer 11

Food security
Food availability
Food access
Buffer creation