3. Unit 4
• 1 and a half hours
• Report style – need to refer to research,
definitions etc.
• Exam will be a discuss, evaluate or assess style
question.
• Steer will narrow down the topic e.g.;
4. Unit 4 – Help from the examiners
• STEER:
• Explore the complex causes of food supply inequalities, both
‘natural’ and those generated by people and their lifestyles.
• Research contrasting locations and scales showing different
causes of inequalities in food supply.
• EXAM QUESTION:
5. Life on the margins – the food Supply
Problem
• Watch this video
6. The complex causes of food supply
inequalities
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7. Newspaper article review
• In pairs read and highlight your article. Then
tell your neighbour what it is about.
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9. South Sudan – Famine?
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10.
11. Nutrition Spectrum
• Varying degrees of food consumed per head each
day – measured in calorie intake per head. There is a
nutrition spectrum globally: from famine to obesity.
• The world average daily calorie intake per person is
2,800 per day as of 2009.
14. Famine
• Famine is extreme under nourisment, caused
by a short term worsening of an already food
insecure situation. Famine differs from long
term under nourishment in that the risk of
death significantly increases.
• Causes of famines are hard to define as often
complex and overlapping. Although often
triggered by external ‘shocks’ e.g. Natural
hazard, war, migration, etc.
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15. Food Surplus – Obesity
• Excess calorie intake leads to obesity and
related diseases such as diabetes.
• Problem of high supply of cheap high –fat
foods.
• Western (urban) life style (high stress, low
exercise.
• Video here
• If time here – the men who made us fat
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16. Is obesity linked to income
inequalities?
• JRF
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17. Different levels of food inequalities
• Obesity map • Life expectancy map
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20. Causes of food insecurity
• Long term factors that have led to food
insecurity can be split into 4 categories;
1. Physical
2. Social
3. Agricultural
4. Economic / Political
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