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Value-added specialty crops
"value added" goods have some other product in them or item attached to them to make them unique and able to sell at higher price.
Food-choice
-- what we eat -- factors ^taste ^convenience ^culture ^habit
Pesticide
A chemical intended to kill insects and other organisms that damage crops.
Biotechnology
A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes.
Fair trade
Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
Food desert
An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
Sustainable agriculture
Long-term productive farming methods that are environmentally safe.
GMOs
Organisms that have been geneticly altered to improve their usefulnes
Urban farming
The growing of fruits, herbs, and vegetables and raising animals in towns and cities, a process that is accompanied by many other activities such as processing and distributing food, collecting and reusing food waste.
food distribution
The process in which a general population is supplied with food.
Food security/insecurity
Whether or not a family has access to enough food.
fertilizer
a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility
Dietary shifts
change in diet
Food-processing facility
commercial operation that manufactures, packages, labels or stores food for human consumption,
Local-food movements
consuming foods that are produced within 100 miles
economies of scale
factors that cause a producer's average cost per unit to fall as output rises
food consumption
how much we eat
Food distribution systems
process in which a general population is supplied with food
food production
the cultivation of plants and domestication of animals
Aquaculture
the cultivation of seafood
organic foods
understood to mean foods grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers