PART 4: Ecology of Hunger: Environmental Impact of Food Production and Population18. Population Growth over HumanTime

https://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?unit=5&secNum=4

1. What are the historical trends that lead to large increases in the world population?
2. How do current fertility trends compare to the past? What does this mean for future population growth?
3. How does an aging population effect a country?

19. US and World Population Clocks

https://www.census.gov/popclock/world

Please Review the number for the world, China, India and the U.S. and review the top 10 most populous countries. You will need to know the general number of both populations.

20. The Environmental Food Crisis: Impacts on Environmental Degradation on Yield and Area (read pages 6-8)

https://gridarendal-website-live.s3.amazonaws.com/production/documents/:s_document/221/original/FoodCrisis_lores.pdf?1486728701

1. What are the impacts of land degradation on crop yields?
2. What are the impacts of climate change on yield?
3. What is the potential effect to food cost and food security?

21. FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/?fbclid=IwAR3XMQGrAN8h-DJMuIbUm8PZK_b8KgUnPYJc3dmuDAUVQJtbG19Lu6M-dz0

Please review the summary report and be able to speak to the ramifications of climate change on numbers 1-3, 5, 8, 9 and 11

22. Michael Pollan: A Secret to Fight Climate Change: Dirt

https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/a-secret-weapon-to-fight-climate-change-dirt/

1. What are Pollan’s solutions to fight climate change with agriculture?
2. What changes need to be made to our federal policies on agriculture?

23. Nutrient Cycles

www.envirothon.org/pdf/CG/nutrient_cycles.pdf

1. What are the parts of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles?
2. How do humans affect these cycles?
3. How does food production effect these cycles?

PART 5: Is there a Solution and What is the Price?

24. Restrictions on Genetically Modified Organisms: United States, The Law Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/restrictions-on-gmos/usa.php

1. What are the agency’s that regulate GMO’s?
2. Based on this article, what is the US government’s stance on GMO’s?

25. AmericanAcademy of Environmental Medicine’s position on GMO Crops.

https://www.aaemonline.org/gmo.php

1. What are GMO’s?
2. What does “substantial equivalent” mean?
3. What are some of the health effects that are linked toGMO crops?

26. NewBiotechnologyVolume27,Issue 5, 30 November 2010, Pages 552–557*This is an older article so there is some outdated information butI wanted you to understand the promise of GMO’s and the consensus that still dominates the science. I should note that the Golden Rice was the poster child of the GMO’s in terms of their promise but it turned out it took 14 bowls of the golden rice to provide1 serving of Vit A which is ridiculous as populations that have the ability to eat 14 bowls of rice, usually do not have malnutrition issues. In addition, it never made it out of the testing phase in terms of safety.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678410005364

1. What are the benefits of GMO crops?
2. How are they involved in world hunger?
3. How does this information compare to reading27?

27. The Health Risks of GMO’s: The Institute for Responsible Technology

https://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-education/health-risks/

1. What are the health risks associated with GMO crops?
2. What are the issues with the Round Up ready crops?

28.Institute for Responsible Technology: GMO Educationhttps://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-education/environmental-risks/

1. What are the environmental risks?

29. What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?

http://www2.ipm.ucanr.edu/WhatIsIPM/

1. What is IPM?
2. What IPM techniques are used?

30. Sustainable Agriculture, the basics? (will open in Google)

https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/sustainable-agriculture-definitions-and-terms#toc2

1. What does sustainable agriculture mean?
2. What are the ecological concerns?
3. What are the philosophical considerations?

31.Food Tank: The Food Think Tank “40 Chances to Create a Better Food System.

http://foodtank.org/news/2013/10/forty-chances-to-create-a-better-food-system

1. Be able to give several examples of more sustainable practices throughout the world.

32.Environmental Hormone Disruption: Naturopathic Doctors News and Reviews Aug 9th2012

http://ndnr.com/web-articles/endocrinology/environmental-hormone-disruption/

1. What is environmental hormone disruption?
2. What chemicals are involved in this?

33.Boston University School of Public Health: Are their benefits to being a vegetarian?

http://www.bu.edu/themovement/past-issues/spring2011/being-a-vegetarian/

1. What are the health implications of a vegetarian diet?
2. What are the nutritional considerations?
3. What groups of people should be concerned with eating vegetarian diets? Why?
4. What is the role of vegetarian diets and chronic disease?

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