Year 11 - Geography
Sustainable food production
Global pattern of food resources
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Unit Summary
This unit, comprising of three variants, teaches pupils about global inequalities in food, water and energy production and consumption. Pupils learn about resource security and about sustainable futures.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how sustainable strategies can increase food supply while protecting the environment for future generations, and use a local-scale example.
Key Notes
- There is a move towards sustainable strategies to increase food supply.
- Sustainable strategies to increase food supply include organic farming, seasonal food consumption and reduced waste.
- Around nine per cent of people in Bangladesh live in extreme poverty, without enough food to eat.
- Sandbar-cropping in Rangpur region is a local-scale example of how sustainable supplies of food can be increased.
Vocabulary To Learn
- sustainable food supply: when food is produced in ways that avoid damaging natural resources, provide social benefits and contribute to local economies
- organic farming: when food is grown without the use of artificial chemicals, such as fertiliser and pesticide
- permaculture: a system of farming based upon or directly using patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems, such as increased biodiversity and intercropping
- urban farming: the growing of crops and the raising of animals in towns and cities; includes processing and distributing food, as well as collecting and reusing food waste
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Sustainable food production only benefits the environment.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
There is a move towards sustainable strategies to increase food supply. Sustainable strategies to increase food supply include organic farming, seasonal food consumption and reduced waste.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'sustainable food supply'
when food is produced in ways that avoid damaging natural resources, provide social benefits and contribute to local economies.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Sustainable food production only benefits the environment. Correction: Sustainable food production also has social and economic benefits, such as improving food security and reducing poverty.
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