Food Safety and Security Activity.
Food Safety and Security Activity.
Food Safety and Security Activity
Important Terms and Vocabulary
Green Revolution: beginning in the mid-20th century, a large increase in crop production in developing countries was achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties
Millennium Development Goals: endorsed by the United Nations in September 2000, eight measurable goals were declared as a commitment to build a safer, more prosperous, and equitable world with a target date of 2015
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Sustainable Development Goals: adopted in September 2015, this set of 17 goals seeks to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda; each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years
Famine: when people face a complete lack of access to food and other basic needs and experience mass starvation, death, and destitution
Food Desert: defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food
Food Insecurity: a situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life
Food Security: when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life
Hunger: synonymous with chronic undernourishment; defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as consuming less than a minimum level of kilocalories
Malnutrition: a condition resulting when a person’s diet does not provide adequate nutrients for growth and maintenance
Undernourishment: an indicator of inadequate dietary energy that is assessed at the population level using national food balance sheets to determine the supply of dietary energy available to a given population and modeling of how that energy is distributed across the population
Click on this link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/ and then scroll down on the document to read about “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World”:
Step One: Freeze Agriculture’s Footprint
Step Two: Grow More on Farms We’ve Got
Step Three: Use Resources More Efficiently
Step Four: Shift Diets
Step Five: Reduce Waste
After reading about the five steps, discuss the following:
1. List and discuss one pro and one con of at least two of the five steps.
Now watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3p8sFGxepE and then discuss the following question:
2. How feasible or practical are the presenter’s solutions for solving food insecurity challenges around the world?
Now watch the video Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjr6z1GMDqc
3. What are your thoughts about the claims and strategies discussed in this video?