Review of Green and Gene "Revolutions"

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Across
  1. 2. A feature of the Green Revolution, which goes against traditional farming methods and involves the cultivation of one single type of crop, reusing the same soil.
  2. 4. Right to produce and consume culturally appropriate food sustainably
  3. 6. A feature of the Green Revolution, which involves the introduction of technologies within agriculture. FOr example, moving from hand threshing to motorized threshing
  4. 8. If the Green Revolution was carried out in Africa, it would likely make many farmers reliant on ____, which is antithetical to local food sovereignty.
  5. 9. Argues that the key to ending hunger in Africa is sustaining food biodiversity, not pursuing the single Green Revolution. (Food in Africa comes from 2,000 different plants. To put this in context, food in the United States comes from 12 different plants).
  6. 11. Supporters of the Green Revolution. They favor a high-cost, high-tech approach and provide grants with the initiative to strengthen African agriculture
  7. 12. _________, a UN Secretary General, has agreed to head the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) that is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Argues that the key to ending hunger in Africa is having a higher yield of food.
  8. 13. It has long been debated whether food insecurity in Africa is an issue of underproduction or ______
Down
  1. 1. Right to have access to enough food to maintain a healthy life
  2. 3. This involved the use of highly productive crops, pesticides, and new irrigation technologies which boosted food production, but didn’t resolve the hunger issues it was meant to address.
  3. 5. After a year of study, an international panel of scientists came to the conclusion that African agriculture will undergo numerous _____ because there are many different farming systems in Africa. A one-size-fits-all model, such as a single Green Revolution, is unlikely to be successful.
  4. 7. Their stated goal is to increase food productivity, food security, incomes and livelihoods of small-scale farmers, many of whom are women.
  5. 10. These are saved by small-scale African farmers from season to season, which helps them maintain independence