What's this?. Large greenhouses in Spain that grow food for export. The area around America has become known as the Costa del Polythene: a sea of plastic.

What's this?

Large greenhouses in Spain that grow food for export. The area around America has become

known as the Costa del Polythene: a sea of plastic.

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

How can we produce more food

• With the population rising and no more land people have been very quick to find new ways of producing more land.

• As there has been such a need for more food, someone has invented new ways of producing more food. In other words ‘necessity is the mother of all inventions’.

• This increases the amount of food the land produces and this is called the ‘carrying capacity’ of the land.

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

How are these examples of how humans have used ‘technology’ to produce more

food?

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Enough food for everyone?

• As we journey round the world, label what is happening in different countries on your world map.

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

India’s Food Problem

• India’s population is now 1.2 Billion • India's land mass is 3.2M km²• This means that India has a

population density of 368pp km² (compared to the UK’s 255).

• In the past India has needed some serious help in order to feed its huge population …

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

India’s ‘Green Revolution’ in the 1940’s

• One part of the GR was to introduce new High Yielding Verities of rice. On was called Miracle Rice as it drew so quickly in dry conditions. This trebled yields (the amount of food produced in one year).

• Watch the video here • How does this help feed our global

growing population? Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Zeer Pots in Sudan

• This is a simple design that helps to keep vegetables cool in a pot inside a pot.

• A damp sand barrier sits between the two pots and keeps the inside pot cool, a bit like a mini fridge.

• How does this help to keep to feed our global growing population?

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Zeer Pots

Super Cows in Brazil

• Watch this video (from 31.30) and see what is happening in Brazil with the breeding of cows.

• How does this help feed our global growing population?

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Tomatoes in a Spanish desert

• Watch this video (from 22.15) and see what is happening in Spain to produce more tomatoes.

• How does this help feed our global growing population?

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Organiponicos in Cuba.

• Watch this video (from 1.10) to see what they are doing all over Cuba to produce more food.

• How does this help feed our global growing population?

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Research time

• Use the ipads or the laptops to research into as many of these different ways of producing more food as possible …

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?

Just a minute

• Talk for as long as you can on the topic of …

• How the world has produced more food to feed its growing population.

Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth?