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Outline the factors leading to demand outstripping supply of food, energy and water.
Overview of how environments and ecosystems are used and modified by humans including:
mechanisation of farming and commercial fishing to provide food
deforestation and mining to provide energy
reservoirs and water transfer schemes to provide water.
Understand the term ‘food security’ and the human and physical factors which influence this.
How world patterns of access to food are illustrated, such as the world hunger index and average daily calorie consumption.
Investigate the differences between Malthusian and Boserupian theories about the relationship between population and food supply.
Case study of attempts to achieve food security in one country (Tanzania) to include:
Investigation of statistics relating to food consumption and availability over time.
The success of one attempt in helping achieve food security at a local scale such as food banks, urban gardens and allotments. Case study: Goat aid
The effectiveness of one past and one present attempt to achieve food security at a national scale such as global food trade, GM crops, ‘The Green Revolution’ and food production methods.
Past attempt: Canada wheat project
Present attempt: SAGCOT
Explore the environmental, economic and social sustainability of attempts to achieve food security, in relation to:
ethical consumerism, such as fairly traded goods and food waste
food production, such as organic methods and intensive farming
technological developments, such as GM crops and hydroponics
small scale ‘bottom up’ approaches, such as urban gardens and permaculture.