NUTR 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Genetically Modified Organism, Sustainable Agriculture, Natural Capital
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Make up the labor force in the informal sector of the economy. 70% of people living on < a day are women. Empowerment of women needs to be important: employing impoverished people needs to be important. Output traits: approved varieties of genetically engineered foods are safe to consume. Food insecure condition in which the quality, variety, and/or desirability of the diet is reduced and there is difficulty at times providing enough food for everyone in the household. Nutrition security secure access to a nutritious diet coupled with a sanitary environment and adequate health services and care. Hunger the primarily physiological (internal) drive to find and eat food, mostly regulated by internal cues to eating. Food insecurity a condition of anxiety regarding running out of either food or money to buy more food. Famine an extreme shortage of food, which leads to massive starvation in a population: often associated with crop failures, war, and political unrest.