[Other sources] - Agriculture and Environment

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Questions 1-10

Write ONE WORD ONLY in each gap.

  • 1 production – biggest problem in today's world
  • Agriculture is important for jobs, exports, and foreign exchange
‘Agriculture’ means:
  • growing crops
  • raising animals
  • 2
  • 3
  • Agriculture must be sustainable: old methods and new chemical methods are all unsustainable. The 4 of biodiversity – biotechnology GM or GE bio-prospecting (bio-piracy), i.e., large companies steal samples of native plants to use as 5 material for their own crop.
  • 6 change is responsible for fewer goods and higher prices.
  • Farmers need to be educated, but governments also need to pay attention to 7 development in order to protect the environment and re-nourish the soil.
  • Experts from around the world could come together to form an international 8 to observe farm systems, aiming to prevent pollution and erosion and encourage safe procedures that are also 9.
  • Creating the project’s 10 would be very expensive, and more money would be needed for the monitoring system — but it could solve the problem.