GCSE Impacts of food insecurity
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an effect or result, in this case of food insecurity. Can be Social (people), Economic (money) or Environmental (on nature)
the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
The condition in which not enough calories are ingested to maintain health
An extreme shortage of food
is chronic or severe undernourishment
The removal of topsoil faster than the soil forming processes can replace it, due to natural, animal, and human activity. Often it is a complex mix of all 3 activities.
Keeping animal stocks at numbers higher than the environment can support can cause soil erosion - animals eat the vegetation & compact the soil limiting new plant growth - soil washes away
Trying to grow too many plants - never letting the soil rest removes vital nutrients from the soil. Means less plants grow, more soil is exposed and gets eroded away.
Rising Food prices
Caused by food insecurity and prices go up when demand is greater than supply
Horn of Africa 2011-12
Serious famine affecting parts of Somalia and Ethiopia
A form of SOCIAL UNREST where people act in a violent manner because of food shortages and food prices
Example of food riots - in 2007/8 people rioted over soaring food prices (up to a 65 percent increase). Over 100 people were arrested in one of the towns.
Enviornmental Science Honors Unit 4A
APES Chapter 12: Food Production and the Environment
Bio Lecture 9
Lagos Urban Planning
Challenges of Living in Lagos
Opportunities of living in Lagos
Lagos Causes of Growth
GCSE Global Patterns of food surplus and deficit
GCSE Reasons for increasing food consumption
GCSE Strategies to increase food supply
GCSE Food supply OVERVIEW