Topic 5.2 - Terrestrial Food Production Systems and Food Choices (IB Environmental Systems and Societies)

Food Security

When all people at all time have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.

Malnutrition

Insufficiency in one or more of the nutritional elements necessary for health and well-being.

Sustainable Agriculture

Refers to agricultural systems emphasizing biological relationships and natural process that maintain soil fertility, thus allowing current levels of farm production to continue indefinitely.

Food Waste

When perfectly edible foodstuff are thrown away at the retail and consumer level.

Food Loss

Refers to food that spills, spoils, incurs an abnormal reduction in quality, such as bruising or wilting, or otherwise gets lost before it reaches the retailer and consumer. Food loss typically takes place at the production, storage, processing and distribution stages in the food value chain.

Agricultural Technology

The application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetable products.

Land Tenure

Refers to the ways in which land is or can be owned.

Diet

The kinds of food that a person, animal or community habitually eats.

Agro-Industralisation

Industrialized farming that is typically large scale and capital intensive.

Green Revolution

Refers to the introduction of high-yielding seeds and modern agricultural techniques in LEDC's.

Agro-Ecosystem

A form of modern farming which involves industrialized production of livestock, poultry, crops and fish.

Food Miles

The distance food travels from the farm where it is produced to the plate of the final consumer.