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What is food security?

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When All people at all times have physical &economic access to sufficient, nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for a healthy lifestyle

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What are the 3 pillars of food security?

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Availability
Access
Utilisation of food

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What is the GFSI?

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The Global Food Security Index - Provides a global view of the most vulnerable countries to food insecurity

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What are the 5 physical conditions needed for food growth?

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Air
Light
Water
Soil
Temperature

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What is an Agro-ecosystem?

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An ecosystem on agricultural land with inputs, processes, throughputs and outputs

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What is Extensive farming?

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Large scale commercial farming, high yields per capita

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What is intensive farming?

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Small scale farming with high amounts of labour inputs

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What is subsistence farming?

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Farming for their own survival or the communities survival

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What is commercial farming?

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Farming on a large scale for profits

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What are food miles?

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The distance food has travelled from producers to consumer

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What is the issue with TNCs in developing countries?

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They have high amounts of capital and can farm at a higher rate than local farmers

Local suppliers have little power so they have higher amounts of power in the food system

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How has globalisation increased obesity?

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TNCs can have fast food in many countries now

Consumers has a wider choice of food all year round

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Why are price crisis an issue?

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As globalisation has connected food supply it means that the price is more volatile globally

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How has globalisation led to technological innovation?

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the global sharing of information has allowed for quicker innovation of farming

however developing countries struggle too keep up

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How has globalisation influenced short term food aid?

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has meant that countries can receive food aid quicker and through multiple different sources

Bilateral aid, Non-government, Multilateral aid

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What are the 4 human factors influencing food security?

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Land ownership & capital
Trade & Competition
Technology
Land-grabbing

17
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How does Land ownership and capital influence food security?

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In many countries land is essential as it can provide their incomes, food, water and house

If taken away then it can mean that this is at risk

18
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How does Land Grabbing influence food secuirty?

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This is when another developed country acquires land in a developing country for their own food security

This takes potential land and food production capabilities away from the target country and to the investor

19
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How does competition influence food security?

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Due to the increasing number of monopolies in the food market it means that their is less competition

This leads to underpaid farmers and potentially higher prices for those in developing countries

20
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How does technology influence food security?

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New technologies such as new seed strains or fertilizers can be used to increase yields and reduce food insecurity

ACs can take more advantage as they have the capital to use these

21
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What is Malthusian Theory?

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He argues that population grows Geometrically ( 1,2,4,8) but food was only growing arithmetically (1,2,3,4)

So population will outgrow the food production capacity until famine and war shrinks the population

22
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What is Boserup’s theory?

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As we approach resource depletion it would cause us to advance to find new ways to produce enough food for eveyone

23
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What is a Pinch Point in the supply chain?

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This is a place where disruption could be likely to happen

24
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What is desertification?

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the destruction of of the biological potential of land, leading to a reduction in agricultural capacity

25
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What are 3 causes of desertification?

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Fires
Water scarcity
Demand for Fuelwood

26
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What are 3 Climate change factors affecting food production and distribution?

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Floods - more water vapour = more rain

Droughts - soil erosion

Heatwaves - one every 200 days

27
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How does water scarcity affect food production and distribution?

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Less than 1% of food is useable for human use

60% of water for agriculture is lost due to poor irrigation systems

28
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How do tectonic hazards affect food production and distribution?

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Volcanic ash - destroys pasture land

Earthquakes - isolated areas and supply chain

Nepal 2015

29
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What is malnutrition?

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deficiencies/ excesses or imbalances in a persons energy intake or nutrients

30
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What are the 2 main types of malnutrition?

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Undernutrition

Overweight/obesity

31
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3 Examples of undernutrition

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Stunting

Wasting

Nutrient deficiencies

32
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What is a double malnutrition burden?

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when a country is suffering from both undernutrition and also obesity

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