Deck 8: Food: From Farm to Fork

Question 1

What is the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" in reference to?

A) A place with high pirate/drug trafficking activities.
B) A low oxygen environment.
C) Where all the deep sea oil refineries are.
D) A place like the Bermuda Triangle where a Greenpeace ship disappeared.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Goldschmidt thesis:

A) Is based on a body of research that extends back to the 1940s.
B) Is based on a body of literature looking at the impact of industrial agriculture on communities.
C) Argues that farms dependent on hired labor and that are not operated (nor managed) by their owners place a greater burden on communities than when a countryside is populated by farms lacking these characteristics.
D) All of the above.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is it called when plants are bred (and genetically engineered) with the aim of increasing their micronutrient content?

A) Nutri-gentrification.
B) Biofortification.
C) Agroecology.
D) Protification.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What fruit industry is being threatened (again) by Panama disease (a fungus resistant to fungicide)?

A) Apple.
B) Orange.
C) Kiwi.
D) Banana.

Question 5

As explained in Society and the Environment, small-scale diverse farms, also known as blank, that raise grains, fruits, vegetables, and livestock have been shown to out-produce, in terms of harvestable products per unit area, large, specialized (monoculture) operations.

A) Polycultures.
B) Conventionalizations.
C) Monocultures.
D) Biofortifications.

Question 6

What global social movement (perhaps the largest in the world) collectively represents about 200 million farmers and peasants?

A) La Via Campesina.
B) Environmental Justice Movement.
C) Maquiladoras.
D) Biocultural Movement.

Question 7

Which term refers to a series of strategies developed during the mid- to late-twentieth century to combat starvation by expanding the global production of staple food crops through crop breeding?

A) Mechanical revolution.
B) Green revolution.
C) Structure of agriculture.
D) Global land grab.

Question 8

A condition defined as a diet lacking in sufficient quantities of micronutrients is also known as:

A) Agroecology.
B) Acquired nutritional effervescence.
C) Micro-biofortification .
D) Micronutrient malnutrition.

Question 9

Which term refers to "from farm to fork" -the web of production of farm implements and feeds, to growing, harvesting, packaging and distributing food?

A) Agroecology.
B) F
C) Industrial agriculture.
D) All of the above.

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a definition for the mechanical revolution?

A) Innovations in agriculture over the past 200 years.
B) The substitution of capital equipment for labor.
C) The use of agro ecological principals to cultivation.
D) a and

Question 11

Children are a particularly sensitive population to micronutrient malnutrition due to having higher nutritional requirements per kilogram of bodyweight.

Question 12

The green revolution encouraged monoculture agriculture.

Question 13

To speak of the food system is also to take into account the regulatory, economic and legal structures that promote and uphold food system.

Question 14

At the height of the global food crisis in 2008 millions of Haitians resorted to eating biscuits made of mud, oil and sugar. At the same time, agribusinesses were reporting record profits.

Question 15

With specialization and mechanization we can NOT expand the "scale" of farm production operations and increase "production".

Question 16

Mechanization encourages specialization.

Question 17

Virtual water content is the amount of pesticides used to produce a crop / commodity.

Question 18

Some irrigation systems are more efficient than others. In gravity (tiered) fed irrigation is 40% -meaning that 60% is lost to evaporation while drip irrigation systems are 80-90% efficient -meaning 10-20% lost to evaporation.

Question 19

Full irrigation is the amount of water needed to plant seeds and grow seedlings.

Question 20

There are dead zones from Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico - approximate size of New Jersey.

Question 21

Define the mechanical revolution.

Question 22

Define the calories to water ratio.

Question 23

What is the agricultural treadmill?

Question 24

What is the fertilizer treadmill?

Question 25

What is the Seed treadmill?

Question 26

Define industrial agriculture.

Question 27

What is the green revolution and was it a success?

Question 28

Define Biofortification

Question 29

Define the Goldschmidt Thesis.

Question 30

What is the Rainbow evolution?

Question 31

Define monoculture and Polyculture.

Question 32

Define and give an example of Peasant-based movements.

Question 33

What has changed in the structure of agriculture over the past 100 years? Discuss the role of mechanization and specialization in U.S. food production as outlined in the chapter.

Question 34

Review the Fast Facts at the start of the chapter. Consider each carefully. Which fact is most compelling (surprising) to you and why?

Question 35

Which Fast Fact would you use to talk to and educate others about our current agriculture or food crisis? Why and what would you say?

Question 36

What are some of the impacts of the current industrial food system on water resources and global warming? Summarize some facts and connections from the chapter.

Question 37

What are some of the connections between the industrial food system and communities and community health? Summarize some facts and connections from the chapter.

Question 38

What are some of the connections described in the chapter between malnutrition and the green revolution? Discuss and explain with reference to the chapter.

Question 39

In developing workable solutions to the current agriculture and food crisis, what does Carolan mean by "rainbow evolution?" Discuss and explain.

Question 40

What are the principles of agroecology and how do these farming principles lend themselves to developing more sustainable farming practices?

Question 41

What is the La Via Campesina Movement? Summarize and describe this movement and other peasant-based movements presented in the chapter. What are the implications of these movements for transforming and changing the current food production system? Discuss and explain with reference to the chapter.

Question 42

Discuss what is meant by urban agriculture and discuss how this particular food movement is part of the larger movement to develop alternative, more sustainable food systems. Reference the chapter in your discussion.

Question 43

It seems as though labor abuses and injustices take a backseat to issues of environmental sustainability when thinking about and talking about food. Why do you think that is? How can we make all those involved in the growing, manufacturing and processing, transportation and selling more visible?

Question 44

What are some of the links between the green revolution and micronutrient malnutrition?

Question 45

In many respects, people from developing countries are at the forefront of challenging the dominant global food system (like La Via Campesina and the Landless Workers Movement). Why is that? What threats does this system pose to them?