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Chapter 12: The Production and Distribution of Food - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 12: The Production and Distribution of Food
Subsistence Agriculture
Farmers live close to the edge
Common in Asia, Latin America, sub-Saharan America
Many depend on imported food and prices are soaring
Modern Agriculture
Modern machinery
Infrastructure
Chemicals
Irrigation
Expansive land
Confined Animal Feeding Operations
Biofuels: ethanol and oils from agricultural crops and it is important because it limits the use of foreign oil and also helpful for climate change mitigation
Biotechnology
Genetic Modifications: transgenic is when gene is taken from a completely different organism and a marker assisted breeding is a traditional breeding sped up using molecular biological techniques
genetically modified organisms (GMO): organism receiving genes from other organism by genetic (transgenic) engineering
Controversy: activists protested "frankenfoods". Some consumer groups wanted mandatory labeling
Food Crisis: Security
Food security: access for every person to enough nutritious food for active and health life
Hunger: lack of basic food required to provide energy and to meet nutritional needs
Undernourishment: is the lack of adequate food for energy
Malnutrition is the lack of essential nurients
Over-nourishment is eating too much
Food Crisis: Trade/Sustainability
Trade moves goods from place to place, food has become globalized
Developing world export special crops
Trade helps exporter: importers get out of season or specialty foods