Resource Manage 1

• What is a resource?

  A stock or supply of something that has a value or purpose.
• What are the three important resources

  Food, water and energy
• Why is the resource: food important

  - A poorly balanced diet can cause illnesses and diseases

  - People need to be well fed to be productive

  - Obesity is an increasing problem
• How many people in the world are malnourished

  1 billion
• What does undernourishment mean

  Undernourishment is having insufficient food or other substances for good health and condition
• How many people were undernourished in 1990 and 2000

  1990= 840million ( 16% of the population )

  2000= 858million ( 14% of the population)

  More people were undernourished but the percentage was lower due to their being an increased population during those time periods
• Which areas suffer most from under nutrition

  Countries in sub Saharan Africa and central Africa
• Why is water an important resource

  - essential for drinking

  - vital for crops

  - used to produce energy
• Why is their an imbalance in water supply across the world

  - variations in climate and rainfall

  - capturing storing and extracting water is expensive

  - LIC/ NEE use most water for agriculture

  - HIC use most water in industry
• Why is energy an important resource

  - Needed for light, heat and power

  - Powers factories

  - Provides fuel for transport
• Why is their global inequality with energy

  - richer countries consume more energy than poor countries because they have more industries and appliances which run on energy

  - The Middle East is a major oil supplier yet its own consumption is low

  - As NEEs become more industrialised the demand for energy will increase
• If their is an increasing population but we have less resource what issues may occur

  -famine

  - water shortages

  - lack of development

  - increased conflict
• How much of the UK's food is imported

  The uk imports 40% of the total food it consumes
• Why does the UK import so much food?

  -demand for more exotic foods and seasonal produce all year round

  -availability of cheaper food from abroad

  -UK climate is unsuitable for production of some foods
• What is the impact of importing food

  food can travel long distances (food miles). Importing food also adds to our carbon footprint. This comes from producing the energy for commercial cultivation, and from transport
• Give examples of food miles

  Blueberries from USA has a food mile of 5300km

  Beef from Argentina has a food mile of 11,600km

  Beans from Kenya has a food mile of 6800km
• How is the UK responding to the challenges of high value food which have a lot of food miles?

  People are being encouraged to eat locally produced foods according to season. Two recent trends in UK farming are agribusiness and organic produce.
• What is agribusiness?


  Agri business is a combination of agriculture and business. involves the application of business skills to agriculture and food production
• Example of an agribusiness

  Lynford House Farm in east anglia
• Explain the agribusiness in Lynford House Farm

  A large farm of 570 hectares

  Since it is an agribusiness: it has high inputs of chemicals( pesticides and fertilisers), machinery and other investments

  The land is flat and fertile so is intensively farmed, maximising the amount of produced food
• An example of an organic farm

  Riverford organic farms in Devon
• Explain the Riverford organic farm


  Began as an organic farm and dairy farm in Devon but now delivers organic vegetables to Yorkshire, Peterborough and Hampshire
• What is the benefit of organic farm

  -reduce food miles

  - support local farmers

  - provide local employment

  - build a strong link between grower and consumer ( community )