fh.4 Future health and food security and sustainability

Unit Contents

• fh.4.1 Solutions to food insecurity
• fh.4.2 Contemporary approaches to food production
• fh.4.3 Ebola - Managing the disease and pandemic

fh.4 Future health and food security and sustainability is part of the Food and health geographic theme (Paper 1). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health

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Geographic inquiry: Future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health

• Possible solutions to food insecurity, including waste reduction
  • One case study of attempts to tackle food insecurity
• Advantages and disadvantages of contemporary approaches to food production, including genetically modified organisms (GMOs), vertical farming and in vitro meat
• The merits of prevention and treatment in managing disease, including social marginalization issues, government priorities, means of infection and scientific intervention
• Managing pandemics, including the epidemiology of the disease, prior local and global awareness, international action and the role of media
  • One case study of a contemporary pandemic and the lessons learned for pandemic management in the future

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