Food production GE8

2. Poor nutrition caused by not getting enough healthy food.
6. A highly productive cereal crop mainly used for livestock feed, food products, and ethanol.
8. The world’s most common cereal, used for bread, pasta, and many other foods.
10. The use of machines in farming to increase efficiency.
11. A situation where carbon dioxide released is balanced by carbon dioxide absorbed.
12. Farm animals raised for meat, milk, eggs, wool, or other products.
15. A cereal grown in flooded fields, especially important in Asia.
17. Fuels made from plants, such as ethanol and biodiesel.

1. A way of earning a living, often through farming or herding.
3. Artificial watering of fields to improve crop growth.
4. A tropical crop used to produce sugar and ethanol.
5. Substances added to soil to improve plant growth and crop yields.
7. The cultivation of plants and raising of animals for food and other products.
9. Grass plants grown for their edible grains, such as wheat, rice, and corn.
13. The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
14. The amount of crop produced from a certain area of land.
16. A protein-rich legume used for livestock feed and foods such as tofu.