INDG 401 Lecture 11: lecture 11 Agri 411
9 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
12th February
Lecture 11 – course review and other topics
• Food is the centre of all the topics, this should be the main idea when studying
o How each topic links to agricultural activities that produce food
• Exam
o Will be 7-questions
▪ Half to a full page per question
▪ Respect the margins
o What to study and how to study
o He like when you list sentences (bullet points)
o Key topics
▪ Climate change
▪ Soil degradation
▪ Global warming
▪ Energy crisis
▪ Malnutrition food insecurity
▪ Development
o Each person mentions some interesting tings that the others don’t and we
should look at them
o Clarify your concepts
▪ Ex.) food security
• The four dimensions of food security
o When studying other topics look at how that topic will
effect the four dimensions
• Definition
▪ Ex.) food sovereignty vs food safety vs food crisis vs food quality
• Is quality part of safety or is safety part of quality?
o Ten staples that feed the world (in order)
▪ Corn
▪ Wheat
▪ Rice
▪ Potatoes
▪ Cassava
▪ Soybeans
▪ Sweet potato
▪ Sorghum
▪ Yam
▪ Plantains
o World meat and milk supply for human consumption
o Other definitions and concepts
▪ Sustainable development
▪ Sustainable agriculture
