Name: Nikka Mae S.

Torres

Module 6- Toward global citizenship and sustainability

VII. PRE-ASSESSMENT. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. How sustainable development be given emphasis in today’s living?

Sustainable development can be given emphasis in today’s living by the means of securing and
fostering the environment nor the earth as a whole. We obtain materials and resources that we
need from the environment which helps us to gain the development we experience right now
that’ s why we must live in a more sustainable lifestyle in order to maintain sustainable
development.
2. Why there is a need of food security?
Everybody needs food. The complexity of delivering sufficient food to a national population and
to the whole world population shows why food security is needed or such a priority for all
countries whether developing or developed. Food security is not about just food and feeding
people but also about practically all aspects of economy and society.
3. What is the role of the citizens in shaping the world globally?
The role of citizens in shaping the world globally is that to understand the wider world and their
place in it. Citizens emphasizes political, economic, social and cultural interdependency and
interconnectedness between the local, the national and the global.

Task 16: Look in the web a model of global sustainability. Cut and paste the model then analyze it.

Task 17: You are a member of government think tasked to develop solutions and alternative
mechanisms to problem associated with global security. Fill out the template below.

Topic Guide questions Problem Alternative /solution

1. Access to food What are the problems Problems encountered One essential
encountered by by the government component in the
government in include hunger, common solutions to
ensuring that everyone obesity, malnutrition, food access is assisting
has access to food? low crop yields, locals with sustainable
Considering many inadequate food management of local
factors, what storage, poor natural resources
alternative solutions sanitation and related through soil
can the government instability. conversation, water
institutionalize? harvesting,
 rehabilitating irrigation
systems and reducing
the loss of biodiversity.
2. Availability of good What factors affect the The factors that affect Some of the
availability of food? the availability of food alternatives/solutions
What alternatives can are cost, taste, cultural are:
the government norms, and  Reduce food
provide to ensure that convenience. apart waste
food is available for from this there are also  Reduce the risk
all? factors such as of
socioeconomic status commercializing
and ease of food  Improve
accessibility, which existing
basically affects the infrastructural
nutrient quality and programs
types of food  Improve trade
purchases. policies
 Promote
diversification
 Close the yield
gap
 Works toward
defeating
climate change.
3. Affordability of food What factors affect the Factors that affect the The alternatives provide
prices of food? What prices of food are by the government in
alternatives can the supply and demand, order to ensure the
government provide to weather, disease affordability of food are
ensure the affordability outbreaks, war, and the following:
of food? natural disasters.  Establishing a
food policy
council.
 Increase
enrollment in
the
supplemental
nutrition
assistance
program
(SNAP)
 Support the
sale of the local
foods across
the community
by offering
incentives and
encouraging
 the
establishments
of farmers
markets.
4. Food quality What pressing Some problems of Government must then
problems do nations food quality that ensure that food
contend with in nations face and businesses comply with
ensuring the quality experience are these requirements-
and nutritional value of microbial through training,
their food? How can contamination, inspection and
the government ensure chemical enforcement. By
high food quality for its contamination, implementing national
citizens? adulteration, misuse of food surveillance and
food additives, monitoring programs,
mislabeling, genetically governments can verify
modified foods, and if the controls in place
outdated food. This are are sufficient to
common public health maintain a safe food
risks related with food supply.
safety issues in the
food market.

VII. Self- Evaluation:

Explain the link between climate change and the global economic crisis.

Climate change results to global economic crisis. As climate change degreasing, global economic crisis
will increase. Human development and economy depend on the environment. Humanity’s earth-
transforming domination leads to global economic crisis.

X. POST- TEST: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BRIEFLY.

1. Is degrowth a feasible alternative to capitalist globalization? Explain your answer.

Degrowth is not a substitute for capitalism but rather a framework that aims to overturn only
one constitutive element of the system.
2. How could Filipinos avoid loss and food waste?
Filipinos could reduce and avoid loss and food waste by patronizing food produced in an
environmentally sound manner such as those grown organically or packaged using recycled
materials to lessen waste dumped into landfills that generate methane, a relatively potent
greenhouse gas.
3. What is the most significant attribute of global citizenship? Explain your answer.
A global citizen is someone who is aware of and understands the wider world and their place in
it. They take an active role in the community and work with others to make our planet more
peaceful, sustainable and fairer.