Food Related Vocabulary
Across
- 3. The distance food travels from producer to consumer, often used as a measure of environmental impact.
- 4. Areas where food insecurity is especially severe and widespread
- 6. A set of research, developmetn, and technology transfer inititaves that increased agricultural production world wide.
- 8. Farming that meets current food needs without comprimising future generation's ability to meet their needs.
- 9. The right of people to healthy and nutrionally appropriate food and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
- 10. Foods that are eaten regularily and in such quantities that they form a dominant part of a diet
- 12. A widespread scarcity of food causing severe hunger, malnutrition, and increased mortality.
- 14. Farming to meet the needs of the farmer's family, with little surplus for sale.
Down
- 1. An area with limited acess to affordable and nutritous food
- 2. Farming primarily for sale and prfot rather than personal consumption.
- 5. A situation in which the available food supply is insufficient to meet the population's needs.
- 6. Organisms whose genetic material has been altered to produce desired traits.
- 7. The total number of calories consumed by an individual, often used as a meausure of food consummption.
- 11. Large-scale, industrialized, corporate farming
- 13. Food that is discarded or lost uneaten, at any stage of production, processing, retail, or consumption