food resources
define key terms
physical factors
human factors
poverty
food insecurity
food security
reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
the state of being extremely poor, unable to afford basic things that a human needs to survive such as food.
climate, soil, gradient and quality.
technology,
the condition of not having access to sufficient food or food of an adequate quality to meet ones basic needs.
Malthus
1798 Thomas Malthus argued that population growth will constantly increase at a faster rate than food supply, this would eventually lead to famine and starvation.
Boserup
argued that when population growth begins to approach the limits of food production, it would create an incentive for people to invent new technology and better farming techniques.
people of easter island, what happened?
what was the island like?
there was a huge lack of food and that is one of the ways they had died out, they ended up fighting for land and eating each other as that was the only way they could really survive.
it was tropical but now there are no trees as they had all been cut down and used by the people of easter island. it now has statues that were made by the people of easter island ages ago. it is a very isolated island with short grass. the island is 63 miles squared. the soil used to be fertile.
the people arrived 160 years ago.
statues on easter island
they are made of tuff
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the first people of easter island were farmers and they could have grown crops but the ground then was infertile.
there were 3000 of them or around 10000.
the people died of hungeror by the diseases that the tourists brang from europe. and pests.