Agriculture: Feeding the World

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Across
  1. 4. The farming of aquatic organisms
  2. 5. The ingestion of too many calories and improper foods
  3. 7. Uses a variety of techniques designed to minimize pesticide inputs
  4. 8. Use of mechanization and standardization in the production of food.
  5. 9. Condition which people do not have adequate access to food
  6. 10. Food insecurity so extreme large numbers of deaths occur in a given area over a relatively short period
  7. 14. Production of crops without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers
  8. 16. A substance that kills or controls organisms that people consider pests
  9. 17. technique that avoids the soil degradation that comes with conventional tilling agriculture techniques
  10. 18. Iron deficiency
  11. 19. composed of organic matter from plants and animals
  12. 20. Genetically Modified Organisms
  13. 23. Condition which people have access to sufficient, sage and nutrition food
  14. 24. Produced commercially
  15. 25. A substance that kills plant species that compete with crops
  16. 26. Intentional watering of large area of farmland
Down
  1. 1. Intercropping trees with vegetables creates windbreaks and reduces erosion
  2. 2. Regardless of calories consumed diets lack the correct balance of nutrients
  3. 3. The use of machinery to complete work on farmland
  4. 6. The decline of fish population by 90%
  5. 9. commercially harvested population of fish in an economical region
  6. 11. Producing enough food to feed the world's population without destroying the land
  7. 12. plowing parallel to the topographic contours of land, helps prevent erosion by water
  8. 13. rotating crops from season to season
  9. 15. Large structures designed for maximum output, breeding
  10. 21. Plant an single species or variety
  11. 22. Unintentional catch of nontarget species