Impacts of food security

Question 1

how were people affected by the Horn of Africa famine in 2011?

Answer 1

-livestock were dying
-people were malnourished and undernourished
-not enough water
-refugee camps were needed

Question 2

how does food insecurity create soil erosion?

Answer 2

-deforestation to grow crops
-overgrazing of animals for food
-over cultivation of land for crops

Question 3

how does deforestation create soil erosion?

Answer 3

-less interception of rain
-without interception water washes the soil away
-without trees the soil doesn’t receive the right nutrition and becomes dusty and gets blown away
-with no roots the soil can not be binded together and gets blown away

Question 4

how does overgrazing cause soil erosion?

Answer 4

-animals eat vegetation
-vegetation doesn’t put nutrients into the soil
-the nutrient cycle is broken
-the soil degrades
-plants don’t regrow

Question 5

how does over cultivation cause soil erosion?

Answer 5

-takes all the nutrients out the soil
-the nutrient cycle is broken
-soil degrades
-plants don’t regrow

Question 6

what food types have increased in price the most from 2000 to 2015?

Answer 6

vegetable oils and cereals

Question 7

why would an increase in the price of vegetable oils and cereals impact people in areas of poor food security?

Answer 7

vegetable oils and cereals are the most common foods LICs use so they would have to spend more money