fh.4.1 Solutions to food insecurity
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- Future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health.
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Possible solutions to food insecurity, including waste reduction
- Case study or detailed examples
- One case study of attempts to tackle food insecurity
- Aims of this lesson
- To know and understand at least three possible solutions to food insecurity.
- To develop your depth of knowledge and understanding sufficiently so that you could use one of the possible solutions as a case study.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals
A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability
The Guardian · 7 November 2025
Key terms
- Food insecurity
- A lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life.
- Food waste
- Food that is fit for consumption but consciously discarded at the retail or consumption phases.
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Review
- Suggest one reason why reducing food waste is more achievable in some countries than others. [2]
- Explain two ways in which food waste reduction could improve food security. [4]
- Examine how in vitro meat and vertical farming could contribute to sustainable food production in the future. [10]
- To what extent is food waste reduction the most effective solution to global food insecurity. [10]
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