Global Food

Question 1

Almería, Spain

Answer 1

• Dry, arid, hot
• Large greenhouses made of plastic
• Grows 50% of Europe’s fruit and vegetables
• $1.5 billion towards Spain’s economy annually
• Large amounts of plastic waste
• Toxic pesticide waste
• Blocks up riverbeds and destroys mountains
• Higher cancer rates suspected

Question 2

Jamalpur, Bangladesh

Answer 2

• Very poor area
• 65.5% work in agriculture
• 38.4% Literacy rate
• Practical Action educates farmers to increase yields and productivity
• Subsistence to Commercial farming
• Sustainable farming introduced
• Gher farming system - Growing rice and fish simultaneously in the same field
• People resist
• Quite Expensive
• Hard to access some areas