Geography 1500F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Grater, Ecosystem Services, Slow Food
14 Dec 2018
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Agriculture"s challenge: feed everyone as the population, produce enough food, distribute food equally, maintain ecosystem services, provide livelihoods (jobs/cultural) Major forms of food production: intensive agriculture, dominant in north america, high input, low labor (irrigation, technology, traditional, low-input agriculture, most farms in global south, low input, high labor. Intensive agriculture: monoculture, highly mechanized, upstream business. Processing, marketing: encourages ever grater production. Drivers of : economies of scale: produce+, cost/unit -, agri-business, north america, europe. Subsides: developing world: export based economies. Intensive agr-- :challenge 1 a :produce enough food: changes that have increased yields for intensive agriculture. Improved crop varieties: the green revolution: Effort to increase agricultural yields in asia, latin. Yields seen as a measure of progress: methods. Who benefited most? (took fields to grow food for exporting) Challenge 1b: distribute food equally: forms of malnutrition. Undernutrition can"t grow or buy enough food to meet basic energy needs. Overnutrition consume more calories than spent, resulting in accumulation of body fat.
