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Food security
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Which of the following are the pillars of food security?
Production, access, cooking, taste
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Availability, access, utilization, taste
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Production, access, cooking, stability
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Availability, access, utilization, stability
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Which of the following statements about current global food production is true?
We do not produce enough food to feed the global population
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The majority of the world's agriculture is supplied by smallholder farmers
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We trade almost all the food that we produce around the world
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Most farms in the world are large and produce the majority of our world's agricultural products
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The majority of greenhouse gas emissions associated with food production is from transporting that food
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Which of the following is the major reason for a lack of food access?
Physical access
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Social access
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Stability of access
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Economic access
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Which of the following are potential food safety changes for food security under future climate change conditions?
A potential increase in aflatoxins
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A potential decrease in food borne illnesses
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A potential decrease in the need to refrigerate foods
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How might mobile technology aid farmers in improving food security?
They can use mobiles to monitor markets
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They can use mobile payment systems
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They are able to receive weather reports and technical assistance.
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All of the above given options are correct
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What do we have to consider when foreign investment from higher-income nations is used to develop food transport infrastructure in lower-income nations?
How they may increase food security since food can be transported from farmers to households faster.
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Whether there are any other environmental side effects on, for instance, biodiversity.
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How projects may influence the social relations between different communities and groups in the lower-income nations.
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Do lower-income or higher-income nations generally, and on average, suffer more food loss and waste?
Lower-income nations do because they are often don't have access to the latest technologies, and food is lost at the production and processing level.
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Higher-income nations do because they have so many resources they tend to waste food in the household.
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High and low-income countries have equal amounts of food waste and loss overall in the supply chain, just in different sectors.
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Which group is most vulnerable to changes in micronutrients and other essential components of food?
The aged
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The working-aged
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Young children
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Why do clean cookstoves represent an important technology in many nations?
They reduce the amount of air pollution people are exposed to and improve their respiratory health.
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They reduce the greenhouse gas emissions because they are more efficient.
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They reduce the amount of deforestation needed to provide the fuel because they are more efficient.
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