Production and Distribution of Food Review

1. Describe some advancements that the agricultural revolution brought to farming and state the environmental costs of each.

2. What was the Green Revolution? What were some of it's limitations? What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Green Revolution?

3. Describe subsistence agriculture and state it's relationship to sustainability?

4. How does animal farming affect the environment?

5. How do sustainable animal farming and industrial-style animal farming affect the environment on different scales?

6. What are our major prospects for increasing food production in the future?

7. Eating lower on the food chain has environmental and other benefits. Discuss.

8. What have been the patterns in grain trade in the world over the past 60 years?

9. Describe the three levels of responsibility for meeting food needs. At each level, how can food security be increased?

10. Define hunger, malnutrition , and under-nutrition.

11. How are hunger and poverty related?

12. We function in both a cash economy and a social system. Explain each.

13. List three causes of hunger in developing countries.

14. How does food aid aggravate poverty and hunger?

15. In order to improve self-sufficiency and prevent chronic dependance, what conditions should be attached to food aid sent for famine relief?

16. Explain how the four principles of sustainability apply to agriculture.

17. What are the pros and cons of relying on biotechnology to increase food production?