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LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Management attempts to increase global food supply

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Management attempts to increase global food supply

• Examples of food production increase include:

– Irrigation systems, basic dams. Here

– Industrial Revolution.

– Green Revolution.

– Gene Revolution.

– New Rice for Africa (NERICA)

– Hydroponics underground on tube lines? Video

– Fair trade

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Management attempts to increase global food supply

• Increasing food supply differs from increasing the security of supply. Increasing food supply has been given priority globally.

• Tackling insecurity means looking at all aspects of the food system from field to table.

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Management attempts to increase global food supply

• The model below shows the stages required to improve food security:

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Management attempts to increase global food supply

• Different strategies that might be used in the quest for food security:

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Strategies to increase food supply

• Turn to p315 (read and make notes on Strategies to increase global food supply)

• Importantly realise that there has been a rise of middle classes in Asia who have been hunger for meat as wealth has now increased. This means more animal feed is needed to rear them.

• Video here

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Strategies to increase food supply

1. Fair Trade

• Intro video here

• Also watch this video here about coffee in Uganda

• Read the Case study on p316 Kuapa KokooFairtrade cooperative and make notes.

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Strategies to increase food supply

2. Work of NGO’s NGO’s operate at local scale with local commuitiesand so they are effective in providing local sustainable solutions. They work ‘bottom up’.In Africa the Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL) has helped agricultural producers develop their products and better connect with their markets. They have given farmers the equipment and know how to strengthen the farmers business. This helps bring stability to the area.

LO: Management attempts to increase global food supply

Homework

1. Read and note p13-14 Food & Famine, Changing Tastes in China.

2. Read and highlight the Fair trade Geofile, noting whatFT does for the community as much as anything else

3. Write a 300 word answer to the question of ‘Why isn’t producing more food enough?’