10.8 Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms

Application and Discussion questions are intended to be used for student reflection and response; in class discussions or online forum discussions.

Key terms are needed to understand the concepts in this chapter and will appear in other chapters in the text.

10.8.1 Reflective Questions

  1. How is the production of food tied to equity?
  2. What role do government crop subsidies play in nutrition?
  3. What role do tax breaks and food banks play in food insecurity?
  4. How do food costs and the poverty line interact?
  5. What influences a family’s food purchases? How does what you’ve read relate to your own family’s experience with food?
  6. What are the factors that affect a family’s access to safe water and sanitation?
  7. What role does the government play in the water and sanitation system?
  8. Based on what you’ve read in this chapter, provide reasoning and support for whether safe water and sanitation should be considered a human right?

10.8.2 Key Terms

These terms are needed to understand the concepts in this chapter and will appear in other chapters in the text.

  • environmental justice: an intersectional social movement pioneered by African Americans, Indigenous peoples, Latinx, women, lower-income, and other historically oppressed populations fighting against environmental discrimination within their communities and across the world
  • food desert: geographic locations where there is very limited or no access to affordable and nutritious foods
  • food insecurity: Low or very low access to food of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. May or may not show patterns of disrupted eating.
  • food security: No or little reported indications of food-access problems or limitations.
  • food stamps: The previous name for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people.
  • food system: The interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture.
  • poverty line: the estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life, adjusted annually for inflation.
  • sanitation: Conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal.
  • sharecropper: A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
  • socioeconomic status: A combination of one’s wealth, education and occupational level.
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): The department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food in the united states of america.
  • wastewater: water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes, such as sewage water.

10.8.3 Licenses and Attributions for Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms

10.8.3.1 Open Content, Original

“Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms” by Elizabeth B. Pearce is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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