6.2.4 Global shift of industry
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- How global interactions create environmental risks for particular places and people
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Environmental issues linked with the global shift of industry: polluting manufacturing industries
- Environmental issues linked with the global shift of industry: food production systems for global agribusiness
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge and understanding of the environmental issues linked with the global shift of industry focusing upon polluting manufacturing industries and food production systems for global agribusiness.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure
Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
The Guardian · 21 August 2025
Key terms
- Agribusiness
- The business sector encompassing farming and farming-related commercial activities. It involves all the steps required to send an agricultural good to market, namely production, processing, and distribution.
- Manufacturing industries
- Industries transforming goods.
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Review
- Analyse the environmental consequences of global flows of food and manufactured goods at varying scales. [12]
- The environmental impacts of globalisation affect all places equally. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [16]