BIOL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Colony Collapse Disorder, Soil Organic Matter, Soil Fertility
17 Nov 2016
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Food safety and food security: sustainable food systems. The ability of a system to continue to do what it was designed to do. In the case of our earth: to provide fresh air and clean water, to produce food, to allow satisfactory quality of life. In the case of our food: to ensure food security for all. Food security: physical and economical access by all people in a society at all times to enough culturally and nutritionally appropriate food for a healthy and active lifestyle. Industrial agriculture: practices that allow for specialization in specific crops (or animals) and are based on an industrial model of high-efficiency production that: Attempts to control and manage nature as just another commodity. Impacts of industrial agriculture: 40% of earths land is farmed, fallow periods have been shortened such that. N-k-p is added chemically (harming/killing nearby woodlands and forests) Goes from the gene to a large field (wide range of aspects/living matter)
