Global And Regional Patterns Of Food Production And Consumption

Question 1

Is global food production evenly distributed?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

What are the 2 main drivers of food production

Answer 2

Environmental capacity (influenced by physical environment, climate, water availability, and soil fertility and so on)

Human capacity ( refers to population size) human resources and level of skills, technology and capital investment in agriculture and infrastructure

Question 3

Why was there a gain in food production?

Answer 3

-the package of technologies referred to as the green revolution including increased use of new, high yielding crop varieties and tech. Irrigation, fertiliser and pesticides increased yields for millions of farmers, although with some negative social and environmental impacts

• An increase in globalised trade that addresses seasonality as well as as promoting specialisation of production where it is most efficient
• Investment in production in low income countries by TNCs and other organisations (governments and NGOs) to increase productivity

Question 4

Sub-saharan Africa calorie per day vs industrialised in 2015

Answer 4

Africa = 2360 industrialised countries = and 3440

Question 5

What regions are suffering the most from undernourishment?

Answer 5

Sub-sahara Africa, South Central and Eastern Asia and Latin America

Question 6

Changes in food consumption patterns

Answer 6

An increase in consumption of higher value meat and dairy products instead severing economies

Lower red meat consumption in many developed economies because of health and environmental concerns