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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