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Eastern Kentucky University
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GEO 100 | Regions and Nations of the World
Academic year:

2022
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Ch. 9 Food and Agriculture Key Issue 1 Why Do People Consume Diﬀerent Foods? 1. In what ways do agricultural pracces illustrate “one of the most fundamental diﬀerences between the more developed and less developed countries of the world?” Consumpon of food is greater in more developed countries. The mechanized, highly producve, American or Canadian farms contrast with the subsistence farm found in much of the world. developed countries have beer equipment and have the money to invest in the technology for farming. I. DIET AND NUTRITION 2. Consumpon of food around the world varies in three ways: Level of Development- developed countries has more choices like Mexican, Italian, etc Physical Condions- don’t have to drive to the beach to get seafood Cultural Preferences- lots of dietary restricons 3. Deﬁne dietary energy consumpon: the amount of food that an individual consumes 4. Deﬁne cereal grain: a grass that yields grain for food 5. Deﬁne grain: seed of cereal grass 6. Three grains account for 90% of all dietary energy consumed worldwide (Idenfy & take notes on each. Make sure to be familiar w/ corresponding regions): Wheat: mainly northern hemisphere (North America, Europe, Russia) Maize(Corn): mainly Lan America and Sub-saharan Africa Rice: mainly East and South Asia and paciﬁc islands 7. In sub-Saharan Africa and Venezuela, grains do not comprise a majority of the energy consumed: Sub-Saharan Africa – Kasava, sorghum, sweet potatoes Venezuela – sugar 8. a. The UN recommends that people consume at least 1844 calories/day. b. On average, people consume 2902 calories/day. c. People in developed countries consume 3000 and above calories/day. d. America is the country with the highest consumpon with 3800 calories/day. e. In developing regions, people consume 2800 calories/day. f. Sub-saharan Africa is the region with the lowest calorie consumpon at 2400 calories/day. g. What is the connecon between calories consumed and the percent of income spent on food? developed spend 20% on food while 40% on food in places like Sub-Saharan Africa II. SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS 9. Deﬁne food security: physical, social, and economic access at all mes to safe and nutrious food suﬃcient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an acve and healthy life 10. What percent of the world populaon does not have food security? around 10% of the world’s populaon 11. Compare protein consumpon in diﬀerent parts of the world. In more developed parts of the world, there is more meat consumpon, which leads to more protein consumpon. In developing parts of the world, cereal and grain are the main protein consumpon and only 1/10 is meat.