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How have Agricultural Technologies developed during the Green Revolution impacted the food we eat today and our attitude towards food?By: Sean Stothers
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Green Revolution Started in Mexico 1940-1960 Norman E. Borlaug is said to be the one who started it Agricultural technology was researched and produced It was aimed toward ending hunger
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Poverty & Hunger
50% of the Mexican population lives in poverty In Middle East and North Africa 70%
of the population lives in poverty
More than a seventh of people in the U.S is below the poverty line
Poverty
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Poverty & Hunger
10,000,000 Mexicans are hungry More than a fifth of kids are at risk of
hunger in the US Nutrition programs are the most direct
way to treat hunger Our problem is distribution, not production
Hunger
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Pro Cost Solution
Corn went below $8 a bushel in July 2012 Growing more is cheaper
Less people need to work on food Less land is needed to grow the same amount of food
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Con Pesticides can limit trade
MRLs (maximum residue limits aren’t harmonized)
Fungicides and MRLs Insecticides and MRLs
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Pro Nutrition Levels can be altered beneficiallyMilk Orange Juice
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Con Modified Genes might spread to wild plants
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Pro Crops are more predicable, resulting in a lower percent of food
being wasted.
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Con GMO products provide more possible allergens
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Pro Easier to farm, resulting in more food
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Con GMO products can be used to make people change eating habits
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Conclusion Technology inspired by the Green Revolution…
Makes farming more convenient Isn’t the key to ending hunger Could result in more of less food waste Would benefit from more testing
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How have Agricultural Technologies developed during the Green Revolution impacted the food we eat today and our
attitude towards food?
Poll
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The End
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BibliographyAbraham, A. (2014). Genetic engineering technologies for Ethiopian agriculture: Prospects and challenges. 20(4), 7-16. Retrieved November 16, 2014, from https://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=2903e20c-47ea-404b-a9fe-493573e56c85%40sessionmgr110&hid=127While focus a bit of Ethiopia, it dose give insight on different Genetic Engineering technologies and what they do.Agricultural technology. (n.d.). Retrieved November 11, 2014, from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Agricultural_technologyI can use this website to help me find out some of the more mechanical and chemical based technologies (not things like hybridizing seeds or GMO).Briney, A. (2014). All You Wanted to Know about the Green Revolution. Retrieved November 7, 2014, from http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/greenrevolution.htmThis website acts as a general overview of the events of the Green Revolution. It is meant to provide background information so the audience knows what I am talking about.Convio. (n.d.). Retrieved November 16, 2014, from http://www.bread.org/hunger/us/?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=onlinead&utm_campaign=search&utm_term=us-poverty&utm_content=text&gclid=Cj0KEQiAs6GjBRCy2My09an6uNIBEiQANfY4zNy-mZBCW3zqnownlAhUwCdJRiEVdAhZrJWrJHAUnoAaAiOa8P8HAQThis will help me find lots of statistics on starvation in the U.S and some ideas on how to stop it and how people can get involved.Kantor, K. (n.d.). GMO's - pros and cons. GMO’s – Pros and Cons By Dr Keith Kantor Sc.D, PhD. Retrieved November 28, 2014, from http://www.blueribbonfoods.com/my_health_info/GMOs_-_pros_and_cons.pdfI feel like I didn't have any clear pro and cons for GMO. And this website helps with this.Klein, B. (n.d.). Current Status of Pesticide Registrations and Residue Tolerances (Rep.). Retrieved November 10, 2014, from California Pistachio Research Board website: http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/files/73458.pdfThis report gives me information on restrictions of pesticides and residue tolerance, it also looks at who exports what and what amount of that.
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BibliographyLelieveld, H., & Steinhart, H. (2014, June 5). Journal of the science of food and agriculture, volume 94, issue 10. Retrieved November 11, 2014, from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/jsfa.6746 doi:10.1002/jsfa.6746This editorial talks about food safety regulations, how they are made, and how they should work.McKeown, D., Cape, G., Field, D., Fox, A., Habamenshi, P., Lambrick, P., . . . Cook, B. (2010). Food Connections: Toward a healthy and sustainable food system for toronto (pp. 1-28, Rep.). Toronto, Ontario: Toronto Public Health.This is a report looking at how we would make a sustainable food source for Toronto which is more focused on health. It also talks a bit about food production leading up to 2010 and eliminating hunger.Meyer, G. (2014, September 23). Commodities: Cereal excess. Food Prices. Retrieved November 17, 2014, from http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/42403074-3fe0-11e4-a381-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JJLcZDaeThis article looks at the price of food, mainly cereal grains, and it also looks at the amount of grains produced, as well as smaller things like calorie intake. I might also use info from http://www.ft.com/topics/themes/Food_prices, I just could site it.PATEL, R., HOLT-GIMENEZ, E., & SHATTUCK, A. (2009, September 21). Ending Africa’s hunger [An article about how the Green Revolution impacted starvation]. Retrieved November 10, 2014, from https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=46752d1f-c5b3-43e4-9848-f86e268d8997%40sessionmgr4001&hid=4102This article talks about starvation in Africa and how the Green Revolution didn't help starvation as much as we think it did.Pickard, G. (2010, June 17). Green revolution and hunger | UN post. Retrieved December 2, 2014, from http://www.unpost.org/green-revolution-and-hungerI needed more stats that were world wide and based off of hunger and pricing.United States, Environmental Protection Agency. (2014, June 11). The Food Recovery Hierarchy. Retrieved November 16, 2014, from http://www.epa.gov/foodrecovery/This publication is completely devoted to food waste, and this can be used to see how people value food in the United States.