FOOD ISSUES
Food Supply Issues- the syllabus
Food Supply Issues
Global patterns of food supply, consumption and trade. The geopolitics
of food.
Contrasting agricultural food production systems – commercial, subsistence,
intensive, extensive, arable, livestock, mixed farming.
Managing food supply – strategies to increase production: the Green
Revolution, genetic modifi cation and other high technology approaches,
land colonisation, land reform, commercialisation,
appropriate/intermediate technology solutions.
Managing food supply – strategies to control the level and nature
of food production as evidenced in the European Union: subsidies, tariffs,
intervention, pricing, quotas; non-market policies, set aside and environmental
stewardship.
Changes in demand – the growing demand from richer countries for
high value food exports from poorer countries, all year demand for seasonal
foodstuffs, increasing demand for organic produce,
moves towards local/regional sourcing of foodstuffs.
Food supplies in a globalising economy – the role of transnational
corporations in food production, processing and distribution. Environmental
aspects of the global trade in foodstuffs.
The potential for sustainable food supplies.
Case studies of two contrasting approaches to managing food supply and
demand.
