Transcript Factors_Affecting_Food_Supply

The Food Supply
Factors that affect the food supply
4 Factors
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Agriculture and the Environment
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Government
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Economics
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Technology
Agriculture and Environment
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Agriculture: use and knowledge and skill to
tend soil, grow crops and raise livestock
Requires a suitable environment
Environment: refers to factors such as air,
water, soil, mineral resources, plants and
animals
The relation of these factors affect the
survival of life
Food Crops require various temp., water,
soil, etc.
Government
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Impacts food supply by making laws that govern how
foods are
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Grown
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Packaged
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Labeled
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Exported and Imported
2 key federal agencies
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA):
enforces standards for the quality and
wholesomeness of meat, poultry and eggs
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA): ensures
the safety and wholesomeness of all other foods
Economics
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Law of Supply and Demand: consumers
are willing to pay for a product, producers
will provide it
Food choices made by consumers in the
US can impact world hunger
Other factors that affect hunger
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Little money
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Old farm equipment
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Lack of education
Technology
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Use of knowledge to develop improved
methods for doing tasks
3 ways
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Nutrient Content
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Availability
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Safety
Nutrient Content
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Food techs use expertise to affect the nutrient
content of food
Foods that have less of one component and more of
others
Consumers concerned with health issues related to
foods
Food Techs Developed
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Artificial Sweeteners: products that sweeten
food without adding the calories of sugar
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Fat Replacers: products that cut the amount
of fat in food while keeping the flavors and
textures. Example: Olestra
Availability and Safety
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Availabiltiy: Food Techs trying to finds ways to
feed a growing number of people
Developing Plants that can resist diseases and
pests and studying plants that can grow larger
and faster
Safety: Millions get sick each year
Researchers are developing foods that are less
likely to pass diseases
Working to preserve foods and pack foods for
safety
To increase food supply
Assignment
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Complete Food Supply worksheet
Finish Maslow's Poster if not already
finished