-low capital investment, -rapidly rising pop, -poor distribution, -conflict situatuons
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Factors made worse to food productivity?
-global grown reserves at low levels, -rising food prices create in rest in countries, -extreme weather resulting in climate being no longer reliable
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Effects of food shortages?
- quickly leads to malnourished people -people less tolerant to illness -lack in specific nutrient e.g vitamin, -constant ill cycle in LEDC, -people wont reach intellectual and physical potential, - land wont be fully farmed
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Define food aid?
Help of basic items of food to a country suffering from food shortages
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Describe relief food aid?
delivered directly to people in a time of crisis
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Describe relief programmme aid?
provided directly to government got sale in local markets
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Describe project food aid?
Targeted at specific groups of people for long term development wok
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3 disadvantages of food aid
- country becomes dependant on donor country, -very expensive as high transport cost, -genetically modified rice found is not allowed
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How is a food crisis happening?
-climate changes, -rising oil price, -rising population, -changing diet, -food used for biofuels
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What’s the green revolution ?
The development and transformation in agricultural practices: using nw technology to allow food production to increase
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Advantages of GR?
+increased production +farmers income has increased +diet of rural communities is now more varied +employment has been created
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Disadvantages GR?
-rural indebtness had increased due to fertilisers -LEDC cannot afford -grains produced lack certain nutrients -mechanisation has increased rural unemployment
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