food security and farming

Cards (6)

  • food security is having enough food to feed a population
  • farming can be affected by new pests and pathogens or changes in the environmental conditions
  • sustainable methods of food production are needed to that enough food can be made to feed everyone now and in the future
  • overfishing is decreasing fish stocks
  • fish stocks can be contained in two main ways: fishing quotas ; net size
  • limiting the movement of livestock and keeping them in a temperature-controlled environment reduces the transfer of energy from livestock to the environment