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| 8255638330 | Undernutrition | Not consuming enough calories to be healthy. |  | 0 |
| 8255638331 | Malnourished | (3 billion, 1/2 of population). Having a diet that lacks the correct balance of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals; Regardless of calories, |  | 1 |
| 8255638332 | Food Security | - Condition in which people have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. |  | 2 |
| 8255638333 | Food Insecurity | Refers to the condition in which people do not have adequate access to food. |  | 3 |
| 8255638334 | Famine | Condition in which food insecurity is so extreme that large #'s of deaths occur in a given area over a relatively short period. |  | 4 |
| 8255638336 | Overnutrition | The ingestion of too many calories and improper foods, which causes a person to become overweight (Est. 1 billion). |  | 5 |
| 8255638341 | Green Revolution | A shift in agricultural practices in the 20th century that included new management techniques and mechanization as well as the triad of fertilization, irrigation and improved crop varieties. These changes increased food production drastically. |  | 6 |
| 8255638349 | Pesticides | Substances, either natural or synthetic, that kill or control pests. |  | 7 |
| 8255638350 | Insecticides | Pesticides that target species of insects and other invertebrates that eat crops. |  | 8 |
| 8255638351 | Herbicides | Pesticides that target plant species that compete with crops. |  | 9 |
| 8255638353 | Selective Pesticides | Pesticides that target a narrow range of organisms. | 10 | |
| 8255638356 | Pesticide resistance | Those individuals who survive the pesticide | 11 | |
| 8255638357 | Pesticide Treadmill | A positive feedback pesticide cycle; Pesticide Development -> Survivors/Immune -> more pesticides developed. |  | 12 |
| 8255638367 | No-Till Agriculture | Agricultural method in which farmers do not turn said between seasons; avoid soil degradation / erosion that comes with conventional agricultural techniques. |  | 13 |
| 8255638368 | Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | An agricultural practice that uses a variety of techniques designed to minimize pesticide outputs; Ex. crop rotation + intercropping + pest resistant crops... |  | 14 |
| 8255638369 | Organic Agriculture | Production of crops without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. |  | 15 |
| 8255638370 | Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) | A large indoor or outdoor structures designed for maximum output. |  | 16 |
| 8255638371 | Fishery | Commercially harvestable population of fish within an ecological region. |  | 17 |
| 8255638372 | Fishery Collapse | Decline of a fish population by at least 90% | 18 | |
| 8255638373 | Bycatch | Unintentional Catches. Significantly reduced population of fish species such as sharks, sea turtles and endangered other organisms. |  | 19 |
| 8255638375 | Aquaculture | Farmings of aquatic organisms like shellfish, fish or seaweed; ex. US catfish, trout, shrimp and salmon raised this way. |  | 20 |
| 8255689673 | Seed Banks | institutions that preserve seed types as living museums of genetic diversity | 21 | |
| 8255692599 | Biotechnology | The manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful products. | 22 | |
| 8255695261 | Life-Cycle Analysis | A process that attempts to identify the effect a product has on resources over its entire lifetime. | 23 | |
| 8256020935 | Biocontrol | The use of a species to control the population growth or spread of an undesirable species | 24 | |
| 8256024588 | Bt Corn | genetically modified corn that enters stomach of pest and kills them | 25 | |
| 8256042178 | Precautionary Principle | Principle of preventing premature extinction of species as a result of our activities. A principle based on the belief that action should be taken against a plausible environmental hazard | 26 | |
| 8256048733 | Sustainable Agriculture | Agricultural practices that work to preserve and enhance environmental quality. Agricultural practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality | 27 |
