Food Production
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Why is food production important?
The Agricultural System

Agriculture: the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
synonyms: farming, cultivation
Agriculture can be described as a system:
Commercial and subsistence farming
![]() Using pages 182 to 186 of your textbook create a mind map of the differences between:
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Using your text book page 184 -186 read through and make some notes on the different factors that influence the inputs on agricultural land use. Divide these up into the following categories:
Physical Factors |
Economic Factors |
Social/Cultural factors |
Political factors |
Example: The environment |
Example: The cost of growing certain crops |
Example: Who owns the land? |
Example: Income supplements |
Farming Types - Case study Project
This task should take no more than 4 sides of A4 and be completed on your computers.
1. Briefly (using bullet points) explain the Farming Types:
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2. Create a case study on an agricultural system.
Intensive rice production in the lower Ganges valley State:
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Food Shortages
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Causes of food shortages
Natural
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Human
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Effects of food shortages

"A famine is a widespread scarcity of food."
Photograph by Gareth Jones showing starving children during the Soviet famine of 1932–33
MarasmusMarasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency. A child with marasmus looks emaciated. Body weight is reduced to less than 60% of the normal (expected) body weight for the age.
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KwashiorkorKwashiorkor is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema, irritability, anorexia, ulcerating dermatoses, and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. Sufficient calorie intake, but with insufficient protein consumption.
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Possible solutions to food shortages
Using your textbooks page 190 to 192, complete the activities at the end of the unit.
Case Study:
A region suffering from food shortages – Sudan and South Sudan
State:
A region suffering from food shortages – Sudan and South Sudan
State:
- The year when the single country of Sudan divided to become Sudan and South
Sudan. - The two main reasons for famine in the region.
- The duration of conflict in the region.
- The natural resource which was a significant reason for the conflict.
- The number of people displaced by the conflict.
- The number of people who died from hunger and associated diseases.
- The UN organisation that has delivered vital food supplies to the region.
- A problem associated with delivering food supplies.
- The number of people in South Sudan forecast to be short of food in 2013.
- The proportion of South Sudan’s population forecast to be short of food.
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