Across
- 6. the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants.
- 7. a careful preservation and protection of something especially; planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect.
- 8. the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas.
- 10. the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm; the cultivation of a plant for food.
- 12. means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.
- 13. an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food, in contrast with an area with higher access to supermarkets or vegetable shops with fresh foods, which is called a food oasis.
- 15. a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures.
- 16. an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf.
- 18. the cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food.
- 19. a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem.
- 20. a series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market.
- 22. the activity of running a large farm, especially one used for raising cattle, horses, or sheep
- 23. focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Down
- 1. the clearing or thinning of forests by humans.
- 2. the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
- 3. the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
- 4. a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.
- 5. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership.
- 6. the agricultural practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land.
- 9. a measure of the availability of food and individuals’ ability to access it.
- 11. the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity.
- 14. when farming is done on manmade terraces that have been built into slopes.
- 17. the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agricultural.
- 21. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals.