The concept of food security.
Causes and consequences of food shortages.
The roles of technology and innovation in development of food production.
The role of constraints (e.g. war, climatic hazards) in relation to sustaining population.
The concept of carrying capacity.
Candidates should be able to critically evaluate the concept of optimum population including overpopulation and underpopulation.
The ability of people to access resources can vary at every scale, from local to international. The image on the left was taken in 2012, it is of a suburb in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
What can we infer from this image about the people who live in the accommodation in this area?
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