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Food Security
- Physcial
- economic access to
- sufficient
- safe
- nutritious
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Undernutrition
- prolonged low levels of food intake
- low absorption of food consumed
- e.g. lack of vit. or energy
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Undernourishment/Chronic Hunger
- Don't get 1800 kcal/day
- affected by many characteristics
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Grand Challenge for Ag
- Double global food, feed, fiber, and fuel production on existing farmland within this century.
- Enable food security
- use resources more efficiently
- enhance soil, water and air quality, biodiversity and ecosystem health
- economically viable and socially responsible
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A developing Nation is Characterized by:
(food security)
- Rural
- hungry
- lack health & education
- lack infrsturture
- markets small & widely dispersed
- government collapsed and armed conflict
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Commercial v. Subsistence
- Commercial:
- small % of pop
- high input
- large farms
- Subsistence:
- large % of pop
- low/no input
- small farm size
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Conservation for Commercial
- IPM
- Crop nutrient management
- Conservation tillage
- Conservation buffers
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Subsistence Conservation
- retention of crop residue
- restricting land tillage
- land preparation
- micro-dose fertility program
- Crop rotation and intercropping
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Organic doesn't have
- Pesticides
- Synthetic fertlizers
- sewage sludge
- genetically modified organisms
- ionizing radiation
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