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Resource Management (Food (UK) (Lynford House Farm (agribusiness -…

- - - - High-yield varieties e.g. IR8 rice
      - GM crops
      - Fertilisers/pesticides/herbicides
    - - Zai farming - holes in ground to collect water
      - Bunds - rocks slow down surface run-off
      - Mulch - retains plant moisture
      - Drip irrigation
- - - - Significant decrease
      - Gas is cheaper alternative
      - Thatcher stopped production
      - UK target - no coal by 2025
    - - Decrease to zero
      - Development of carbon capture for coal
      - Worries about oil spills
    - - Rapid increase to 25%
      - Borrowed tech from America
      - Discovery of reserves in the North Sea
      - Safer/easier to transport
    - - Remains roughly constant
      - Carbon-free (but nuclear waste)
      - New plant at Hinkley Point C
- - - - Recreational
      - Sustainably managed forest
      - Tourism income
    - - Interrupts fish migration
      - Lose fertile land
      - 1.5 million trees cut down
  - - - Water meters, charge per unit
      - Hose-pipe ban
      - Energy-efficient appliances
      - Using rainwater & grey water
    - - Chlorine to purify water
      - Water filters to remove sediment
      - Use natural fertilisers (e.g. manure) instead of nitrates & phosphates