ElizabethOlney

Hi guys. I'm going to put all my links and work and stuff on this so, you can look at it if you want to. Yaz, you might find it useful to use Kate, Katie and I's pages for crammed in research. :) Liz. P.S. We're going to win the Nationals!!!!


 * PROBLEM IDEAS**
 * 1 human in 7 is suffering from severe undernourishment
 * Not having the right diet, or enough of it, means not getting enough vitamins and minerals to support the body
 * If you're undernourished you'll die on average 20 years younger than an adequately nourished person
 * The people that are growing the food (farmers) represent 80% of the undernourished population
 * Humans are so dependent on food that if the price goes up because more people want to buy it, we are left with not enough food
 * Giving poor people food pushes down prices on the local markets which make the people that need money to buy food with even poorer
 * Countries with fast population growth are more likely to run low on food
 * We can't increase the amount of land we use for farming by much because Earth is only a small planet and only 1 quarter of it is land
 * Farmers in places such as Europe can have up to 1000 times the yield in the same area of land than farmers in places such as Africa
 * Unfortunately the developed countries' farms have water, oil, fertilizers and pesticides and is highly polluted
 * Financial resources are usually located in the Northern countries
 * You use up far more resources making meat, fish and dairy products than growing plants
 * People eating and growing too much of the same thing
 * Roughly one third of the energy of growing, packaging and delivering a loaf of bread is spent growing and milling the wheat, and about two thirds is spent packaging and transporting the bread
 * Over use of land so it will no longer grow food - called desertification - such that desert or near desert conditions now occupy 50% of the world's land surface
 * Using fallowing methods means that because people are starving they just don't want to fallow because they think they're losing food
 * Climate change/global warming
 * More and more land is becoming desertified - e.g. the Sahara Desert used to be lush vegetation
 * Countries aren't making enough efforts to support themselves
 * These poor countries' governments are usually corrupt, tribal, inefficient, nepotistical - so the food and money that goes to the countries tend to just go to the richest people in the countries and not the poorer people
 * Inefficiency
 * Incompetence
 * Corruptness
 * Plastic pollution is affecting the seas where we get some of our food from


 * SOLUTION IDEAS**
 * Farming dung beetles to eat the dung of many animals and then eating the dung beetles or mashing the dung beetles up into a kind of 'Protein Soup'
 * Eating **every** part of **every** animal so that we get the most energy out of each animal
 * Eating pests that eat away at the plants and animals that we eat - that way we'd be getting more energy from the pest and saving heaps of our yield
 * Having fewer military weapons - making missiles etc. costs so much and uses so much energy that could be put to better use - if we used the energy more efficiently, we could feed starving people for years
 * Encouraging parents to just have one child, not 2 or 3 or 4
 * Eating more fruit and vegetables rather than animals
 * Eating all the plants
 * Eating more animals that have more energy that we can consume than other animals - e.g. caterpillars
 * Going vegetarian
 * Having more underwater plant farms
 * Increase the yield
 * Using organic products which are not so harmful to the environment
 * Using crop rotation
 * Going back to growing local plants which are more suited the the local environment
 * By combining complementary plants and watering them with watering techniques that save on water
 * Southern countries need to grow more food and distribute it within their Hemisphere
 * We need to change our eating habits - eat more vegetables and fruit than meat, fish and dairy
 * Produce food closer to where it is needed
 * Eating more energy efficient foods - e.g. rice (typical US corn production uses about 1 calorie of energy to make 1 calorie of corn, whereas rice uses 1 calorie
 * Use fallowing methods
 * Using irrigation methods to desertified places
 * Educating people to change their ways - feed and educate them


 * QUOTES**
 * "We've got to come up with a new type of agriculture which produces more and better." //[]//, [no date.]
 * "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod and he'll eat for a lifetime." Ancient Proverb, [no date.]

This is the honeybee slideshow I made: These are some draft UPs I did: And some homework: