Unit 05

Question 1

Identify the issues affecting the global supply of food

Answer 1

Earths population is going to keep increasing
Can the biophysical environment supply needs for more people/ wildlife?
Some people are already malnourished
Need better food distribution – western nations have problems with surplus
Capitalism
Modern agriculture is not sustainable
Urbanization – loss of farmland

Question 2

List the requirements of industrialised agriculture

Answer 2

High levels of fossil fuel inputs
High level of technological inputs
Large capital expenditures
High production per farmer 
Economic controls and incentives 
Sophisticated trade networks

Question 3

Describe the Green Revolution and identify advantages and disadvantages of this transformation

Answer 3

The positive and negative impacts associated with fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides, lack of diversity