Across
- 3. a fuel derived from biomass (plant or algal material, or animal waste)
- 5. a chemical or natural product that can be added to soils to increase nutrients available for plants
- 11. to limit the amount of food each person or family is allowed to purchase
- 12. a soil free farming system that uses the waster produced by aquatic organisms (fish) to supply nutrients to plants being grown hydroponically
- 13. suffering or death caused by lack of food
- 14. the extreme scarcity of food
- 15. to store large amounts of good or materials, in this instance food stores
- 17. farming a system of farming that uses large amounts of investment and labour and capital investment relative to the area of land being farmed
- 19. security when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active
- 20. breeding when humans grow plants and animals for specific characteristics, e.g. high yield or drought tolerance
- 21. the growth of plants without soil
- 22. aid help given to a country or region suffering from food insecurity
Down
- 1. farmer when a farmer grows food for their family and not to sell at the market
- 2. an increase in salt content, usually of agricultural soils, irrigation water, or drinking water.
- 4. nutrient deficient soils due to crops being continuously grown on them.
- 6. lack of adequate nutrition, caused by not having a balanced diet, or enough to eat.
- 7. chemicals used to control unwanted fungi in commercial food crops
- 8. crops the cultivation of single crop in one area
- 9. chemicals used to control unwanted plants in commercial food crops
- 10. describing things of the same kind, e.g. the crops produced by a farmer may be all of the same kind.
- 16. the supply of water to land or crops to help plants grow
- 18. modified crops food derived from organisms in which DNA has been changed known as GM crops.