Variations in Food Consumption

FAD refers to:

• limitations due to local and physical problems tied an inability to grow or access food

• political, economic, and human factors tied to an inability to purchase food

We are starting to see that food insecurity is perhaps more affected by FED than FAD in the world. True or False?

• True

• False

_________ farmers tend to have more money to overcome constraints of their biophysical environment and create microclimates; whereas, __________ farmers must largely live within the confines of their biophysical environment.

• commercial; subsistence

• subsistence; commercial

• subsistence; sedentary

• nomadic; commercial

Which theorists believed that the world would not produce enough food to keep up with population growth?

• Boserup

• Malthus

• Smith

• Simon

Which of the below is NOT a reason listed for why productivity has increased in recent years?

• Use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers

• Global warming contributing to longer growing periods

• Presence of free trade and fair trade

• Amalgamation of farmland

• Presence of High Yielding Varieties (HYV)

Which of the below would qualify as FED factors?

• political instability due to warfare

• unequal access to education and stable income

• limitations due climate

• lack of proper food storage, leading to food waste