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    The document discusses how modern technology has increased food supply through agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and selective breeding. It describes the negative impacts of large-scale monocultures and intensive livestock production, including reduced biodiversity and increased pest populations. It also discusses the social, environmental, and economic implications of feeding an increasing global population.

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    The document discusses how modern technology has increased food supply through agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and selective breeding. It describes the negative impacts of large-scale monocultures and intensive livestock production, including reduced biodiversity and increased pest populations. It also discusses the social, environmental, and economic implications of feeding an increasing global population.

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    The document discusses how modern technology has increased food supply through agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and selective breeding. It describes the negative impacts of large-scale monocultures and intensive livestock production, including reduced biodiversity and increased pest populations. It also discusses the social, environmental, and economic implications of feeding an increasing global population.

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    The document discusses how modern technology has increased food supply through agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and selective breeding. It describes the negative impacts of large-scale monocultures and intensive livestock production, including reduced biodiversity and increased pest populations. It also discusses the social, environmental, and economic implications of feeding an increasing global population.

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    Food Supply

    Learning Objective
    State how modern technology has resulted in increased food production in
    terms of:
    o agricultural machinery to use larger areas of land and improve efficiency
    o chemical fertilisers to improve yields
    o insecticides to improve quality and yield
    o herbicides to reduce competition with weeds
    o selective breeding to improve production by crop plants and livestock, e.g.
    cattle, fish and poultry.
    Describe the negative impacts to an ecosystem of large-scale monocultures of
    crop plants.
    Describe the negative impacts to an ecosystem of intensive livestock
    production.
    Discuss the social, environmental and economic implications of providing
    sufficient food for an increasing human global population.
    Discuss the problems which contribute to famine including unequal
    distribution of food, drought and flooding, increasing population and poverty.
    Modern technology has increased food supply substantially in
    the following ways :

    • Agricultral machinery has replace human and improve


    effiiecency due to the ability to farm much larger
    area.
    • Chemical fertilisers improve yields- fertiliser can
    increase the amount of nutrient that plant need
    • Insecticides and herbicides can kill off unwanted insect
    and weed species
    • Selctive breeding- animals and crop pllants which
    produce a large yield are selectively bred to produce
    breeds that reliably produce high yields.
    Monoculture farming means that on a given area of agricultural land only one type of
    crop is grown ( eg trees for palm oil grown in indonesia rainforest)
    This large scale growth of a single variety of plant does not happen naturally in
    ecosystems, where there are usually many different species of plants growing which, in
    turn, support many species of animals ( high biodiversity)
    In monocultures, biodiversity is much lower
    Another issue with monoculture is the increase in pest populations- if a particular pest
    feeds on a crop, farming it in large areas repeatedly means there is and ample of food
    for the pest, causing the population to increase
    Often farmers wil spray insecticides onto crops in orderto control the pests. This leads to
    Harmless insects being killed as well
    Pollution by pesticides ( which are often persistent chemicals which accumulate in fod
    chains
    In many instance where they are used repeatedly for specific pests, the pests may
    eventually become resistent to them, reduing their efffectiveness.
    Intensive livestock farming
    In developed countries, large numbers of livestock are often
    kept in an area that would not normally be able to support
    more than a very small number
    They are often fed high energy foods, regularly given
    medication such as antibiotics as a preventative measure
    against disease and kept in artificially warm temperatures
    and small spaces that do not allow for much movement
    Ecological issues with itensive farming include : reduction in
    biodiversity in areas where large amounts of land are
    used to graze cattle ( as only grass is grown so in effect
    itbecomes a monoculture)

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