HNSC 1200 Lecture 6: Unit 1.6

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Human Nutritional Sciences
• Course: HNSC 1200
• Professor: Snehil Dua

Document Summary

Discuss factors that affect global food production and distribution. Discuss ways that you could positively impact the environment. It is important that we have the ability to produce food for the world, while maintaining a healthy environment. Food and agricultural factors affecting nutrition and health: increased demand for food is influenced by: expected to soon surpass the current rate of food production. Population growth at the present rate of growth, the world"s population is. Demand for high animal-protein diets plant based foods take the least amount of energy to produce, while animal foods take the most energy. Food losses, wastage and spoilage: increased food production is influenced by: Decreased food losses: environmental changes that may have negative effects on food production: Climate changes can cause droughts and flooding, destroying crops and. Ozone layer depletion growing thinner, allowing harmful radiation from. Ocean pollution pollution is killing fish in large dead zones along the coasts.