Food

• How has the demand for food in the UK changed?

  • Historically, food was available in the UK when it was in season and when it was harvested
  • Now we can have seasonal food all year round due to imports
  • this means that there is an increase in food miles, however a lot of the time it is cheaper to import food from LICs than grow it
• How has food importing positivly impacted LICs?

  • uk imports food from lics such as kenya
  • offered jobs for local people in things such as farming and packaging
  • This provides local people a steady income and can improve their quality of life
  • Taxes made from wages can be used to improve things in the LIC such as healthcare and education
• How has food importing negitivly impacted LICs?

  • land previously owned by local people is now required to gro more food to meet the demand
  • Large amounts of water are requred to grow food which uses up all of an areas water supply if they have water scarcity
  • the local people are paid low wages for high manual labour and they are constantly exposed to chemicals
• what is organic food?

  • food produced WITHOUT chemicals ie fertalisers and pesticides
• why has the demand for organic food increased?

  • contains fewer harmful chemicals
  • natural
  • positive for the environment as it leads to less water pollution
• Where do people buy organic things?

  • supermarkets and farmers markets
• What are the disadvantages of organic food?

  • more expensive due to the lower yield per harvest
• what are food miles?

  • distance that food travels from producer to consumer
  • this is by air, ship, train or road
• what is carbon footprint?

  • the amount of CO2 and other gg released into the atmosphere due to human activity
• Why is the UK's carbon footprint increasing?

  • due to the hgiher amount of food that we are importing
• how are emmissions produced from food?

  • Soemtimes, more emmissions are produced from growing a food in the UK than importing it
  • ie growing tomatos in a greenhouse in the UK uses more emissions than just growing and importing them from Spain
  • Plane transported food emits the most
• How can we reduce importing food in order to reduce emissions?

  • consuming seasonal product from the UK
  • only import the foods which CANNOT be grown in the UK
  • Some resterants label the origin of the food on the menue so buyers can make an informed choice of what they eat
  • consume food from local farms
  • grow your own food
• what is agribusiness?

  • Large and industrial scale farm
  • money intensive
  • commercial
• What is the result of more agribusiness?

  • Larger field sizes
  • removal of hedgerows
  • more machinery
  • combining and buying small family farms
  • greater useage of pesticides and fertalisers
• How has agribusiness affected things negativly?

  • Harmed the environment through removing hedgerows and using more fertilisers and pesticides
  • Farms use more machines, unemploying lots of people
• what are the positives of agribusiness?

  • higher food security
  • lower consumer prices