Globalisation + food/agriculture

• Global awareness
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

www.worldometers.info

Food and agriculture project

period 4

At the end of this lesson

• you know what globalisation means
• you can explain the effects of globalisation on the production of food

Answer the following questions and share your answers afterwards

- Think about your last dinner. Can you trace any of its ingredients back to the farm, ocean, or factory where they originated?

- What does “healthy” or “sustainable” eating mean to you? – How do you define these terms, and do you think they are important in your daily life?

- What's your guilty pleasure?

There is enough food on earth to feed everyone. Why is there then a food crisis?

Globalisation

• Food production changed strongly
• As much produce as you can make for the smallest amount of money possible
• This is only possible because of specialization and economies of scale

Food crisis

1. World population is growing rapidly. More and more food is needed.
2. The distribution of food is unequal.
3. The rise in welfare causes a change in eating habits.
4. Rich countries want to change to sustainable energy (bio-ethanol)

Work in silence...

Go to onderwijsportaal, download lesson 1 in a GA file, Read the article and complete the exercises.

There are still farmers who are self-sufficient. They grow their own food and keep a few animals. If a farmer has a few too many, he can sell them on the market, like this man from Burkina Faso is going to do.