Sustainable food + water

Sustainability

What are the 3 "legs" of the stool of sustainability?

Which report suggested that equity for all people, environmental protection + economic growth were all simultaneously possible?

What are the two key concepts within the classic definition of sustainable development (Brundtland Report)?

What is the futurity principle?

What are the four major facets of the sustainability quadrant?

What is sustainable development for the Countryside Commission?

What are the four levels of action towards sustainable development?

What contribution did the Montreal Protocol make towards sustainability?

Identify 2 ways in which the state of technology restricts the environment's ability to meet present-day needs

Explain how CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) contributes to sustainable developement

Distinguish between food availability deficit + food entitlement deficit

Explain the term globesity

Distinguish between under-nourishment + malnourishment

Identify 1 area (in Sudan) where the greatest food shortages were caused by (a) civil war (b) drought + (c) impact of refugees/migrants

In Sudan, which 2 areas had the greatest number of people suffering from food shortages?

Explain what is meant by the diet transition

State 4 ways in which extreme weather can have a negative impact on food production

Define the term agribusiness

What are food miles?

What are subsidies?

Summarise overall advantages + disadvantages of factory farming e.g. food lots + battery hen systems

Assess the advantages + disadvantages of TNCs growing cash crops in developing countries

Explain why the Green Revolution was slow to come to the African continent

Summarise the arguments against the sustainability of first-generation GM crops

Explain why the aid package of Russian tractors to Tanzania was considered so inappropriate

Explain how integrated farming can be environmentally, economically + socially sustainable

What is meant by capacity building?

Distinguish between the following: world water gap + water availability gap

Give 2 examples of how the world's rivers = ecologically threatened

What is the difference between green water + blue water parts of the hydrological cycle?

Define the term river regime

Define the terms over-abstraction + hypoxia

Why are many mega-dams not considered to be sustainable?

Explain how the "magic stones" system works. How is it an example of intermediate technology?

What physical factors determine the supply of water?

How can humans influence the quality of the water supply?

What are the the total projected water withdrawals predicted to reach by 2025?