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
- How is the production of food tied to equity?
- What role do government crop subsidies play in nutrition?
- What role do tax breaks and food banks play in food insecurity?
- How do food costs and the poverty line interact?
- What influences a family’s food purchases? How does what you’ve read relate to your own family’s experience with food?
- What are the factors that affect a family’s access to safe water and sanitation?
- What role does the government play in the water and sanitation system?
- 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.