2. Intensify food production
method Increase area for farming
What efforts have been put in to
increase food supply?
Green Revolution
- HYVs
- irrigated water
- mechanisation
- chemical fertilisers
- chemical pesticides
High-tech farming
- replace land as medium
- stacking
Modernise animal rearing
- sedentary animals / caged
- hormones
- antibodies
- mechanisation
- “factory production”
GMFs
Deforestation
- Indonesia, Brazil etc
Land reclamation
eg FELDA scheme
Emplodering in The
Netherlands
APPLICATIONS OF
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
& INNOVATION
6. How will each of the following
affect food production and supply,
and hence world hunger?
Industrial crops & industrial
uses for food crops
Climate change
Environmental degradation
Urbanisation