Chapter 20: Hunger and the Environment

review the flashcards on cengage

Which term defines limited or uncertain access to foods of sufficient quality or quantity to sustain a healthy and active life?

food insecurity

What is the preferred method of preventing or diverting wasted food?

feeding animals

Where do most of the world's undernourished people live?

sub-saharan Africa

SAM

severe acute malnutrition- resulted by severe food restriction

marasmus

severe undernourishment causing an infant's or child's weight to be significantly low for their age

Kwashiorkor

children with edema

Deficiency of which nutrient results in stillbirths and irreversible mental impairment (cretinism)?

iodine

Deficiency of which vitamin results in blindness, growth restriction, and poor resistance to common childhood infections such as measles?

Vitamin A

Which region has the largest ecological footprint?

Western Europe

Widespread and extreme scarcity of food in an area that causes starvation and death in a population

famine

In the United States, what proportion of households experience hunger or the threat of hunger?

one in nine

What is hunger resulting from inadequate access to available food?

food poverty

What is an inadequate amount of food due to a lack of resources?

food insufficiency

What is collecting crops from fields that either have been harvested or are not profitable to harvest?

field gleaning

Which food recovery process involves collecting processed foods from wholesalers and markets?

nonperishable food collection

What is the annual income of an individual classified as the world's poorest poor?

a. Less than the annual cost of keeping a pet cat in the U.S.

What is the primary cause of the famine in Syria?

armed conflict

How is chronic malnutrition best described?

d. Being associated with stunting

What is a result of marasmus?

d. A "skin and bones" appearance

11What might be given to children suffering from uncomplicated but severe acute malnutrition to ensure rapid weight gain and correction of nutrient deficiency?

ready to use therapeutic food

How many gallons of water does it take to produce the food for one US consumer for one year?

1,500,000

Four crops provide 75 percent of the world's food energy

wheat, rice, soybeans

What is an example of a sustainable agriculture practice?

composting all plant residues

How much more does livestock being raised as feed eat compared to Americans?

ten times as much