• Unit 13-Food resources

    Key points:

    • There is enough food in the world but an imbalance in its distribution.
    • Terrestrial and aquatic food production systems have different efficiencies.
    • Different food production systems have different impacts and make different demands on the environment.
    • Food production is closely linked with culture, tradition and politics.
    • Subsistence and commercial farming systems manage soils in different ways.
    Key words:
     
    agriculture commercial subsistence
    intensive extensive shifting cultivation
    arable pastoral staple food
    coarse grains grain equivalents biofuel
    bush meat aquaculture bycatch
    tragedy of the commnos energy budget energy subsidy
    GM crop

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