Food miles: Advantage or disadvantage? To consider the role of agriculture in food supply

What I know already. What I want to know. What I have learnt. Stick this table into your books and complete the first two columns that last will be filled in at the end.

Starter: With the items you have been given find out the origin (where they are from) and label them onto the world map with the help of an atlas. Tea from India Tomatoes from Spain.

Food and their origin Cashew nuts - India Chocolate – Ivory Coast Mangoes – Malaysia Oranges – Spain Brazil nuts – Brazil Kiwi fruit – New Zealand Bananas – Costa Rica Sugar snap peas – Kenya Wine – South Africa Apples – France Strawberries – Israel Coffee - Columbia

Copy the sentences into your book filling in the blanks. Food miles are the measure of the ____________ a food travels from field to plate. This travel adds substantially to the ___________ ___________ emissions that are contributing to ____________ change. ____________ per cent of the fruit and half of the vegetables in the UK are __________. The amount of food being _________ into the UK ____________ in the 1990s and is predicted to rise further each year. Consumers are also directly responsible for increased food miles. We now travel further for our shopping and use the ______ more often to do it. Missing words: Ninety-fiveflownclimate distanceimportedcar carbon dioxidedoubled

Sort the cards into the advantages and disadvantages of food miles. AdvantagesDisadvantages

We use the money from producing our crops for both our children to be in primary school and to build a new home and put in electricity. By importing food we generate large amounts of CO2 causing global warming. The countries that will be most effected are those we import from. Many African countries will have drought and not be able to farm any more. Producing this food has transformed communities. Now young people want to stay in farming because there is money and a future in it. They can have smart phones and good clothes by living here not in a city.

What do Europeans want – to see us all stay in poverty, to come to Europe looking for jobs? By exporting these crops we can earn more and invest in better lives and future developments. By travelling by car to supermarkets we are contributing to global warming so in the future many areas may become flooded while others become desertified.

The direct social, environmental, and economic costs of food transport are estimated at over £9 billion each year. Our farming contributes little to global warming. We use people to weed fields not tractors. I wonder whether stopping the export of out produce to Europe would stop the planes flying and whether that would really reduce the carbon emissions? Food transported across the world burns up a lot of fossil fuel and contributes to global warming.

What do you think? Should we import our food from abroad. Give a reason for your answer. Complete the last column in your table: What I have learnt.

Types of agriculture

Quality inputs Quality / large otuput

Factors affecting quality inputs

Is intensive agriculture Sustainable?

What I know already. What I want to know. What I have learnt. Stick this table into your books and complete the first two columns that last will be filled in at the end.