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Food Resources and Security

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How can countries make sure their people have enough food?

Explain the strategies countries use to achieve food security, including raising production, importing, reducing waste and new technology
A clear, scaffolded answer to the N(A)-Level Geography outcome on achieving food security. Raising production with technology, importing and storing food, reducing waste, new methods like vertical farming, and Singapore's approach.
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What physical and human factors decide how much food a place can produce?

Explain the physical and human factors that affect food supply, including climate, soil, technology and money
A clear, scaffolded answer to the N(A)-Level Geography outcome on food supply. The physical factors (climate, soil, water, relief) and human factors (technology, money, labour, transport) that decide how much food a place produces.
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What threatens the world's food supply and people's ability to get enough food?

Explain the natural and human threats to food security, including climate change, population growth, poverty and conflict
A clear, scaffolded answer to the N(A)-Level Geography outcome on threats to food security. Climate change and extreme weather, population growth, poverty and rising prices, conflict, pests, and loss of farmland.
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What does food security mean, and why does it matter?

Define food security and explain its key parts, including availability, access and the consequences of food insecurity
A clear, scaffolded answer to the N(A)-Level Geography outcome on food security. What food security means, the ideas of availability and access, what food insecurity leads to, and why some places are more secure than others.
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