L14. Ways to Grow Food (p. 96-99)

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Across
  1. 5. Stanford University professor leading research on diversified oil palm farming in Costa Rica
  2. 9. The core food group produced by forest trees that attracts orangutans and indicates forest health
  3. 10. Type of rodent pest found in lower quantities on diversified farms compared to monocrop farms
  4. 11. ​Valuable timber tree species grown in the middle of oil palms on Costa Rican diversified farms
  5. 12. ​Type of insect species that feeds on dead plant material and restores nutrients back into the soil
  6. 13. ​Crucial natural process performed by birds and insects that habitat zones on farms help support
  7. 14. Environmental label awarded to oil palm farms meeting strict deforestation and conservation criteria
  8. 15. Type of non-human ape monitored by rearchers in Customary Forests through nest counting
  9. 16. Midwestern US state where some farmers plant native prairie strips between crop fields to prevent soil erosion
  10. 17. Plant grown alongside bananas in diversified farms to produce chocolate
  11. 19. ​Multi-cropped high-value practice involving growing crops like mushrooms, honey, and medicines beneath canopy cover
Down
  1. 1. ​Process of natural destruction prevented when farmers grow native plant strips to anchor soil
  2. 2. Central American country that passed a 1996 law banning unauthorized forest clearing
  3. 3. Minimum required percentage range of farm land that sustainable palm farms must retain as wildlife habitat
  4. 4. National park in Indonesia near which researchers monitor animal populations in local forests
  5. 6. Type of farming where multiple plants are grown in the same area
  6. 7. Nation where the goesvernment owns all land, leaving individuals without land ownership rights
  7. 8. Official government permit that communities in Indonesia can obtain to protect local forests from corporate acquisition
  8. 14. Fast-growing food crop planted alongside oil palms that matures within five years
  9. 15. Single-crop farming method that contrasts with diversified agricultural systems
  10. 18. ​Flying mammal species whose diversity increases in diversified farms to help control caterpillar pests​