Key Words and Concepts –
Final Exam
Factors affecting future
demand for food:
How might changes in
population dynamics affect food demand?
Demographic factors
growth
rate
changes
in structure of population
Non-demographic factors
income
urbanization
changing
food preferences
Factors affecting future
supply of foodstuffs: How to increase
yields?
Expanding crop land
Potential for expanding crop land
Problems
associated with, both environmental and non-environmental
Environmental
problems
Deforestation
Soil
erosion
Desertification
Non-environmental
Distribution
Infrastructure
Political
Increasing plant yield: Soil factors, plant factors, climate factors,
socio-economic factors
What are the potentials and the problems
associated with each of these?
Improving
plant varieties
Irrigation
Fertilizer
Social,
economic and political factors
Irrigation:
availability of water, salinization, waterlogging
Fertilizer: economic and environmental costs
Globalization
technological and institutional forces affecting globalization of
agriculture
Transportation,
mechanization
WTO,
GATT, NAFTA
development
and modernization
Doubly Green Revolution