Makan Patterns
List 4 examples of starchy staples and identify the most common staple around the world.
What is "
1. Rice, roots/tubers (yam,potato), wheat, corn (maize), legumes (beans, lentils, chickpeas).
2. 2/3 of the world's staples comes from rice, corn, and wheat (all included under cereal grains)."
High-yielding variety that is renowned as the cause of the Green Revolution in India.
What is "IR8 Miracle Rice"
100 Bonus points for telling me the 2 species that it is spliced with.
An international organisation that strives towards zero hunger by providing cash assistance.
What is "UNWFP"
The real life version of Thanos (shares the same ideology)
What is "Thomas Malthus"
Bonus 100 points if you can accurately draw and explain the graph that represents his idea.
% of starchy staples (by calories) in China v.s. USA (Hint: recall the Nat Geo Pie Charts)
What is "22% v.s. 47%"
Bonus 100 points for identifying the country with the lowest % of MEAT consumption and the country with the highest % of MEAT consumption.
A method of supplying water to land other than by natural means. Increases amount of arable land especially on land that used to be too dry.
Use a diagram/drawing to support your answer!
What is "irrigation".
Slogan/Motta for Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to encourage consumers to eat local.
What is "LOVE Homegrown produce" or "LOVE Singapore Farm produce"
100 bonus points for drawing out the logo!
Invented the theory that technology will increase food production (Agricultural intensification) in times of need to meet the demands of a growing population.
What is "Ester Boserup"
Total daily calorie intake of the "world" and of the "US" and "Somalia"
100 points each. To the nearest 100.
What is "2870, 3641, and 1695"
List 2 concerns of GM Food (such as GM Salmon)
1. Threatening wild life populations of non-GM salmon
2. Health and safety concerns, labelling and packaging"
100 bonus points for drawing out the size difference between a GM and Non-GM Salmon from Aquabounty
Total % of food produced locally currently and Split among vegetables, eggs, fish.
What is "10% of total nutritional needs. Categories: 14%, 26%, and 10%"
Bonus 100 points for listing 2 local egg farms and 2 local vegetable farms.
TWO criticisms of Malthusian Theory.
What is "
1. Population growth does not grow exponentially (as seen in DCs with lower birth rates).
2. Food production has intensified successfully, problem is more distribution and ensuring global food security.
3. Increase in population is more due to declining death rates (rather than rising Birth rates) as seen in LDCs.
4. His theory did not take into account globalisation and Global trade of food."
Top 3 consumers of BEEF in the world and top consumer of PORK in the world.
What is "US, China, Brazil" and "Hong Kong"
Explain 2 causes of the continuous shortage of food crops and the rising prices of staple foods associated with the Global North.
What is "demand for Biofuel Crops and rising costs of fertilisers/transport"
A recently developed national standard for green and farming practices. Explain the benefits of this.
What is "SS 632. Encourages local consumers to consume organic, sustainable local produce."
100 bonus points for identifying the FIRST urban farm to have achieved this certification
In Malthusian Theory, TWO types of checks that would and should occur when population exceeds food production.
What is "Positive Checks (Famine, War, Natural disasters) and Preventive Checks (family planning, late marriages, celibacy to control population growth)."
100 Bonus Points for stating the year that Malthusian Theory was published.
% of income spent on food in Philippines (LDC) vs Singapore/US (DC). Explain how this will influence their consumption choices given a rise in income (what % of the increase in income is used on food and what types?)
What is "41.9% vs 6.7/6.4%"
"20% v.s 60% is spent on Food"
"LDCs will cut RICE (staple) consumption by half and meat consumption will increase 3-4 times. However, in DCs, they reduce meat consumption (avoid red meat) and buy more expensive organic foods with Health benefits."
Two agricultural strategies to increase the efficiency of harvest methods and maximise the use of farmland. Explain how both work.
What is "Multi-cropping and Crop Rotation"
List the 3 strategies that Singapore has adopted to increase her food security? Explain how each works.
What is "
1. Food source/import diversification
2. Increasing local production
3. Internationalisation (Leasing farmland)"
Explain the "Malthusian Population Trap"
Hint: It states a paradox that counters EB.
The Malthusian Trap (or “Malthusian Population Trap”) is the idea that higher levels of food production created by more advanced agricultural techniques create higher population levels, which then lead to food shortages because the higher population needs to live on land that would have previously used to grow crops.
(In essence any advancement in technology/food production also creates population growth.)