Chapter 8: Food & Hunger
Learning Outcomes
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Understand the major drivers of food insecurity
- Recognize the role of women in food and nutritional security
- Classify key food and nutritional sources
- Identify benefits and risks of genetic engineering
- Learn examples of genetically modified crops in order to understand the larger picture surrounding genetically modified organisms.
Chapter Outline
- 8.1 Food Security
- 8.2 Global Food Systems
- 8.3 Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
- 8.4 Genetically Modified Crops
- 8.5 Chapter Resources
Attribution
Essentials of Environmental Science section 9.0 by Kamala Doršner is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Modified from the original by Joni Baumgarten.