U3: L7: Tackling food security

Question 1

Define sustainable:

Answer 1

Can be carried into the future without doing harm

Question 2

What can you do to produce more food in the future for families?

Answer 2

Help from NGOs

Add hybrid seeds

Improving storing of maze

Sprinkling fertilizer on individual plants so less is needed

Question 3

How does technology help with food insecurity?

Answer 3

Local experts take close up photos of diseased plants and aerial photos using drones.
Satellites take images of a larger area.
All the images are fled to a platform which uses artificial intelligence.
It is then analysed and can detect where and how fast the disease is spreading.
Farmers and governments are then warned.

Question 4

How does being food secure improve the country as a whole?

Answer 4

People have enough food leading to them having more energy and being able to work more.

More people working will make more money for the country.

The healthcare services will have fewer illness to deal with.

Children can go to school, have a good education and in the future the country will have a well educated workforce.

Question 5

How can we tackle food insecurity?

Answer 5

The government can improve the infastructure like roads making it easier to transfer the food.

NGOs can provided seeds and help for farmers.

Technology can be used like satellites and drones to analyse the crops