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NUSCTX 104 Final Exam – 100% Verified
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Version: Final
, Contributing factors to malnutrition in "industrialized populations" - ✔✔Access to healthy food, household
income and food prices, subsidies, child care and other expenses, education, time constraints
Empowerment program: microcredit - ✔✔Very small loan to people or communities who lac the usual
collateral, steady employment, credit history. Designed to support entrepreneurship, alleviate poverty, empower
women, uplift communities
Privilege - ✔✔A set of unearned benefits given to people who fit into a special group
Industrial agriculture - ✔✔Delocalized, capital-intensive, labor of machines
Modern industrial practices - ✔✔More yields, wealth of knowledge, grow everywhere all year, abundant and
cheap
Extensification - ✔✔Use more land
Intensification - ✔✔Get more from the land
Specialization - ✔✔Focus on a specific crop
The Green Revolution - ✔✔Agriculture modernization 1940-60s, more yield, GMOs, machines, fertilizers,
pesticides, irrigation, monoculture, feedlots, aquaculture. Increase in specialization
Food waste in US - ✔✔Food waste is largest type of waste. Comes from under-harvest, rejections,
home/restaurant waste.
Efforts to reduce food waste - ✔✔Local programs/campaigns (composting), industry goals, commitments, and
campaigns (trayless dining, portion control), personal efforts
GMO - ✔✔Genetically modified organisms
GMO benefits - ✔✔Pest, disease, herbicide resistance, increased nutritional value, reduced pesticide use (?)
GMO concerns - ✔✔Pesticide/herbicide resistant pests, DNA mutations, allergenicity, unintended harm to other
organisms, monopolies, ethical considerations, no labeling in US
GMO animal concerns - ✔✔Compete with wild populations, genetic pollution, disease introduction
Sustainability - ✔✔To maintain the food system, the raw materials for foods and natural resources used for food
transformation and distribution must be conserved, not depleted or degraded.
Sustainability concerns - ✔✔Soil erosion, water use, energy use, social costs, vulnerability to famine,
unpredictability of GMO crops/animals, delocalization, animal/human welfare, antibiotic/pesticide use, farming
NUSCTX 104 Final Exam – 100% Verified
Q&A for Success
Questions and Mark scheme
Version: Final
, Contributing factors to malnutrition in "industrialized populations" - ✔✔Access to healthy food, household
income and food prices, subsidies, child care and other expenses, education, time constraints
Empowerment program: microcredit - ✔✔Very small loan to people or communities who lac the usual
collateral, steady employment, credit history. Designed to support entrepreneurship, alleviate poverty, empower
women, uplift communities
Privilege - ✔✔A set of unearned benefits given to people who fit into a special group
Industrial agriculture - ✔✔Delocalized, capital-intensive, labor of machines
Modern industrial practices - ✔✔More yields, wealth of knowledge, grow everywhere all year, abundant and
cheap
Extensification - ✔✔Use more land
Intensification - ✔✔Get more from the land
Specialization - ✔✔Focus on a specific crop
The Green Revolution - ✔✔Agriculture modernization 1940-60s, more yield, GMOs, machines, fertilizers,
pesticides, irrigation, monoculture, feedlots, aquaculture. Increase in specialization
Food waste in US - ✔✔Food waste is largest type of waste. Comes from under-harvest, rejections,
home/restaurant waste.
Efforts to reduce food waste - ✔✔Local programs/campaigns (composting), industry goals, commitments, and
campaigns (trayless dining, portion control), personal efforts
GMO - ✔✔Genetically modified organisms
GMO benefits - ✔✔Pest, disease, herbicide resistance, increased nutritional value, reduced pesticide use (?)
GMO concerns - ✔✔Pesticide/herbicide resistant pests, DNA mutations, allergenicity, unintended harm to other
organisms, monopolies, ethical considerations, no labeling in US
GMO animal concerns - ✔✔Compete with wild populations, genetic pollution, disease introduction
Sustainability - ✔✔To maintain the food system, the raw materials for foods and natural resources used for food
transformation and distribution must be conserved, not depleted or degraded.
Sustainability concerns - ✔✔Soil erosion, water use, energy use, social costs, vulnerability to famine,
unpredictability of GMO crops/animals, delocalization, animal/human welfare, antibiotic/pesticide use, farming
