l1 2015 causes of famine and food surplus
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Unit 4
• 1 and a half hours
• Report style – need to refer to research, definitions etc.
• Exam will be a discuss, evaluate or assess style question.
• Steer will narrow down the topic e.g.;
Unit 4 – Help from the examiners
• STEER:
• Explore the complex causes of food supply inequalities, both ‘natural’ and those generated by people and their lifestyles.
• Research contrasting locations and scales showing different causes of inequalities in food supply.
• EXAM QUESTION:
Life on the margins – the food Supply Problem
• Watch this video
Newspaper article review
• In pairs read and highlight your article. Then tell your neighbour what it is about.
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Nutrition Spectrum
• Varying degrees of food consumed per head each day – measured in calorie intake per head. There is a nutrition spectrum globally: from famine to obesity.
• The world average daily calorie intake per person is 2,800 per day as of 2009.
Nutrition Spectrum
Famine
SHORT
TERM
Malnutrition and
micronutrient deficiency
LONG
TERM
Balanced Diet and nutrition
Obesity
LONG
TERM
DECREASING HEALTH DECREASING HEALTH
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Famine
• Famine is extreme under nourisment, caused by a short term worsening of an already food insecure situation. Famine differs from long term under nourishment in that the risk of death significantly increases.
• Causes of famines are hard to define as often complex and overlapping. Although often triggered by external ‘shocks’ e.g. Natural hazard, war, migration, etc.
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Food Surplus – Obesity
• Excess calorie intake leads to obesity and related diseases such as diabetes.
• Problem of high supply of cheap high –fat foods.
• Western (urban) life style (high stress, low exercise.
• Video here
• If time here – the men who made us fat
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Is obesity linked to income inequalities?
• JRF
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Different levels of food inequalities
• Obesity map • Life expectancy map
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Causes of food insecurity
• Long term factors that have led to food insecurity can be split into 4 categories;
1. Physical
2. Social
3. Agricultural
4. Economic / Political
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Homework
• Find a newspaper article on rise of obesity, print off and bring to next lesson
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