Resource Reliance
Goat aid (cs)
Canadian wheat programme (cs)
Southern agricultural growth corridor (cs)
Failures
Failures
Facts
Successes
Facts
Successes
Failures
Facts
Successes
Food insecurity
Physical factors
Food production
Resources
GM crops - Involves the changing of DNA in crops to increase resilience to disease and droughts for better yields. Also increases size and nutritional value
Boserup theory - Humanity will continue to find solutions to problems regarding limitations in the supply of resources
Cause for demand
Developing countries require more resources
Natural increase
Malthus theory - The population will continue to grow exponentially whilst the supply of resources grows at a linear rate resulting in large scale population decrease when the population becomes more than the resource supply
Limitations for supply
Being food secure means having a sustainable food source that is nutritious and affordable
Human factors
Intensive farming - Use of pesticides and herbicides increase yields but are environmentally damaging
Allotments - an example of bottom up aid, allows people to make their own food in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way
Overall there was no correlation between an increase in goats and poverty reduction
The yields were low and it would have been cheaper to import wheat
Only 121 Tanzanian's received training for wheat farming
It provided 60% of Tanzania's wheat
In the 1992 southern african drought Tanzania was the only country not to have to rely on food aid
Toggenburg goats were used and produced 3L of milk per day
Canada provided $95 million of aid
Improved the economy leading to improvements in education and other services
Benefited farmers financially (average of 2.6 times more profit)
38,000 tonnes of wheat was produced
Occurred between 1963 to 1993
The goats required resources such as food and water which were already scarce
Goat aid took place in a town called Babati in Tanzania
Run by Farm Africa between 1999 & 2006
Has provided jobs to 11 villages
Has increased yields by over 8 times
Tribes like the Barabaigs have lost access to their land
Aims to improve Tanzanian farming by giving them connections to the world market
Began in 2010
Global warming
Most minerals are finite and will eventually run out
Most money is invested into large commercial farms and not to small land owners
Fast food (nutritious)
Poverty (affordable)
Intensive / damaging farming (sustainable)
Water supply
Soil fertility
Climate change
Change in rainfall patterns
Increase in natural disasters.
Increase in temperature
Fair trade - an example of ethical consumerism, these products benefit the famers and communities financially and ensure environmental safety during production.
Finite resources
Energy - Deforestation / fossil fuels
Water - Resevoires
Commercial fish farming - Intensive fish farming can have a damaging effect on ecosystems and drastically decrease fish populations
Monoculture - Growing one crop over a large are - decreases biodiversity
Mechanisation - The use of machines for havesting, weeding, etc. to increase yields
Cattle ranching - Livestock contribute significantly to methane and ammonia emissions which is worsened by deliberate breeding for food
Hydroponics - Farming crops without soil