Sustainable Food Production and Climate Change

Students describe how photosynthesis is the key process for food production
Students can explain that photosynthesis is the process which produces biomass for life
Students make decisions based on the evidence and arguments, work with data which shows distribution of
results, identify patterns and trends in data, making inferences and drawing conclusions.
Students describe some of the biological factors affecting levels of food security and know that food
security is having enough food to feed a population.
Students describe biological factors which threaten food security including:
increasing birth rate; changing diets in developed countries means scarce food resources are transported
around the world; new pests and pathogens that affect farming; environmental changes that affect food
production, such as widespread famine occurring in some countries if rains fail; the cost of agricultural
inputs; conflicts that have arisen in some parts of the world which affect the availability of water or food.