Food supply issues.
A mindmap about food supply issues.
- Created by: Megan Chilton
- Created on: 05-04-14 12:01
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- Food supply issues
- Terminology
- TNCs – Trans-national coporations.
- Companies that have factories, offices + trade between two or more nations.
- Geopolitics
- The way geography, demography, economics, and the distrutions of resources interrelate with the politics of nations and the relationships between nations.
- Globalisation
- Increasing inter-connectivity or links between economics, culture, political & social spheres.
- TNCs – Trans-national coporations.
- Classifying types of farming
- Commercial – food for profit
- Intensive – where the amount of labour is high, even if the amount of capital is low in relation to the area being farmed
- Extensive – occurs where the amounts of capital and labour are small in relation to the amounts of land being farmed
- Arable – growing crops
- Pastoral/livestock – animals
- Mixed – when farms grow crops and rear animals
- Subsistence – enough to feed family, no surplus
- Factors that affect food supply
- Water availability
- Infrastructure
- Life span of the food
- Cost
- Transport links
- Culture & religion
- Political stability
- Terminology
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