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Green Revolution Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS An introduction of newly developed wheat and rice seeds in Latin America and into the irrigated farm land of Asia Norman Borlaug Correct Answer: FO... OD POLITICS SUPPORT The Green Revolution: Waging a war against hunger he used biotechnology to begin the green revolution 1943 wanted to improve agricultural techniques, creating GMO of wheat, rice, maize, hope these would rescue 3rd world countries from starvation. it worked! increase in revenue even bettered farming (they could buy machines and more supplies it was good) GMOs Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques • Food modification at the cellular level: Manipulation of genetic material by adding/deleting/changing segments of its DNA in a laboratory. • Goal: To produce certain "codes" and "proteins" within an organism that will make it resistant to disease/drought as well as higher nutritional value by using the traits of another organism: Transgenic Organisms (Flvr Savr Tomato, 1994) • Results: Not Really Known/Precautionary Principle/60 countries have either restricted or banned GMOs entirely. • Concerns: Health factors/ Monocultures/Super Crops= Super Pests and Weeds/Reduction of Biodiversity/Loss of Native Species/Food Supply dominated by a few agribusiness that rely on GM products Thomas Malthus Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS -Predicted overpopulation and how we would not have enough food to provide with the number of people we have in the world. ..., Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production. exponential population growth and linear food production Exponential Population Growth Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS -Thomas Malthus -Food supply is linear/population growth is exponential -limited resource environment and growing population CSA's Correct Answer: FOOD POLITICS Community Supported Agriculture ---> The consumer buys a port [Show More]
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