Unit 4 SAC
What is Food Security?
When all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet dietary needs and food prefernces for an active and healthy lifestyle
What are the dimensions of food security? (5)
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptibility, Adequacy and Stability
Name 2 challenges to global food security
Rising population and climate change
Challenges of rising popultion on food security
Puts pressure on the food systems and results in the loss of farmland to urbanisation. Increasing meat and dairy concumption. Increases in food and prepared food. Increasing food imports. Year-round consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, regardless of their seasonality.
Siolutions to rising poulation in terms of food security
Invest in sustainable food systems so that future generations have an abundant food supply. Improve food distribution to rural and remote population groups. Consider population growth by using technology to create sustanable farming methods.
Challenges of climate change on food security
Impact of extreme weather events. Soil erosion. Changes in the seasonal availability of foods. Whole crops being destroyed. Farming land wiped out due to weather. Reduction in foods available for sale and for export.
Solutions to cliamate change in terms of food security
Selective breeding of livestock. Heat-tolerant livestock. Changing crop variaties to more resource-efficienr ones. Focusing on how we can still mainatin successful agricultural systems within a changing climate.
What is food insecurity?
A lack of regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.
Equity
Refers to fairness and provides disadvantaged groups with additional support.
Equality
Refers to equal rights or opportunities for all.
Pathways to acheiving food security
Drones, robotics, agricultural biotechnology, nonotechnology and internet of things
What is food sovereignty?
the rightof peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologicallyu sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agricultural systems.
6 pillars of food sovereignty
focuses on food for people, values food providers, lacalises the food systems, puts control locally, builds knowledge and skills, works with nature.
Pathways to acheiving food sovereignty
Urban agriculture, community gardens, supporting local enteprises, Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people's food systems.
What is food citizenship?
The practice of encouraging food-related behaviours that support the development of democractic, socially and economically just, and environmentally sustainable food systems.
Sociocultural concerns
Accomodation, cultural norms, education, location, income, available time, religiop, peers.
Ethical concerns
Thoughts, behaviours and decisiions reflecting one's moral values in relation to what is considered right and wrong.
Intensive farming
Removing animals from their natural habitats and social structures in order to house and confine them to small, restrictive environments.
4 types of egg farming
Battery cages, poultry barns, free range and organic
2 types of pork farming
sow stalls and free range
2 types of cattle framing
feed lots and pasture fed
Meat alternatives
sociocultural concerns with the livestock industry, such as animal welfare, environmental impact and cost, have reulted in the growing market of plant-based meat alternatives and cullular agriculture.
Primary production issues
use of chemicals, land degradation, use of water, salinity, erosion, choice of crops and animals, biodiversity, biosecurity and climate change.
impacts of use of chemicals
poor managment or oversue of chemicals can increase soil acidification. If they are not carefully applied they can caise spray drift which can contaminate nearby crops and communities.