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Objective: explore food production patterns and influences
Objective: explore food production patterns and influences
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
Starter: can you connect the types of food systems to the correct definition? Which food system provides most of your food, do you think?
Starter: can you connect the types of food systems to the correct definition? Which food system provides most of your food, do you think?
1. Make table of the physical and human factors influencing food production (aim for three of each).
2. How has the balance between the two types of factors changed in recent decades? Which is more important presently?
Page 286 in the textbook will help if you are stuck. 3.
a. Compare and contrast these two farming systems, based on the systems diagrams.
b. What are the merits of using a systems approach in farming?
4. Now apply nexus thinking to farming. Add your notes to your own diagram to show how food, water and energy are connected in the two farming systems.
5. Build a table to list and briefly detail a range of agricultural innovations. Watch this first to get you thinking.
6. Explain the importance of diffusion (including adoption/acquisition, expansion, relocation) in the spread of agricultural innovations.
7. Gender roles related to food production are embedded historically, according to some perspectives. Find a modern day example and explain any variation you identify in gender roles.
PLENARY: what, in your opinion, is the most important factor influencing food production?
PLENARY: what, in your opinion, is the most important factor influencing food production?
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