Food

The practice of cultivating plants and animals as food crops.

An interdisciplinary approach which applies principles of ecology to the practice of agriculture.

The intercropping of annual or perennial agricultural crops with trees or other woody plants.

The industrial farming of fish or seafood.

An approach to producing high yields of food crops in small spaces using raised beds; also known as French intensive agriculture.

Acronym for concentrated animal feeding operation, an industrial-scale facility for housing animals at high densities for feeding prior to slaughter; also known as a feedlot.

A procedure by which a third party verifies the level of performance of a product, process or service compared to some standard.

An approach to supplying food in which customers buy subscriptions to local farms in return for regular deliveries of shares of the harvests.

An approach to growing crops based on 3 principles: crop rotation, protecting soil with cover crops and retained crop residue, and no-till.

A large-scale animal factory.

An industrial-scale facility for housing animals at high densities for feeding prior to slaughter; also known as a CAFO.

An urban area in which residents do not have ready access to healthy food.

A small-scale form of agroforestry in a multi-story combination of food-bearing trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals.

The distance from where a product is grown to where it is eaten.

The state of having access at all times to sufficient, nutritionally adequate, and safe foods that meet dietary needs and food preferences.

A geographic area within which the food for a population is produced, transported, and consumed.

The state of having access at all times to sufficient, nutritionally adequate, and safe foods that meet dietary needs and food preferences.

The right of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food along with their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.

The practice of gathering food found in public or common spaces.

An organism whose genetic code has been altered in a way that could not have occurred naturally by mating or recombination.

The practice of gathering food from leftover crops in farmers’ fields.

The intensification of global food production in the mid-twentieth century based on technologies such as fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, and high-yield crop varieties.

A food forest in a tropical region.

Large-scale farming using fossil fuel-driven machinery, large amounts of irrigation water, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and monoculture planting; also known as agribusiness.

A food processing method in which food is exposed to a dose of radiation for the purpose of killing pathogenic bacteria and insects by disrupting their DNA.

The planting of a single crop over a large area.

An approach to growing crops by planting in undisturbed soil covered by crop residues and other mulch.

The general method of growing crops using environmentally healthy methods and without using synthetic fertilizers or pesticides; also known as organic farming.