Exam 2: Food Systems and Sustainability

Packaged food products account for large shares of total food expenditures among consumers in high-income countries because of demand for convenience.

The _____ segment of a food system includes such industries as farming,ranching,orchard management,fishing,and aquaculture.

Technical innovations such as ingredient modifications,new processing methods,new packaging methods,and cooking advances create change in a food system.

There are 13 standards that a sustainable system of food production must meet.

Water is a critical resource for all agricultural production and food processing.

The food industry is low volume and high-markup.

_____ risk-management options include production risks and marketing risks.

What constitutes a food system and what sustainable means can both vary.

Scientists and leaders understand that sustainable food production is about feeding the world's population rather than focusing on the environment and social issues.

Global food retail sales are about _____ annually.

Food systems can be divided into five major segments; a potential sixth segment would be _____.

_____ is the process of planning and executing the conception,pricing,promotion,and distribution of ideas,goods,and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.

Scientists working in the food system _____.

Urbanization,like the economy,goes in cycles.

Consuming food expenditures in recent years have shown a shift toward the consumption of higher value food products by high-income consumers but not lower-income consumers.

_____ control is the use of living organisms such as parasites,predators,and pathogens to maintain pest populations below economically damaging levels.

As income grows,consumers in lower income countries shift their food purchases _____.

_____ refers to anything that can be maintained at a certain rate or level.

_____ is an example of an allied industry.

Food isa global commodity.