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Additional Resources:
Objective 1: Describe the challenges of global food production.
I’ve chosen the following resources to support this objective:
- Our World in Data | Visual Capitalist | Mapped: Food Production Around the World
- World Resources Institute | Janet Ranganathan | December 2013 | The Global Food Challenge Explained in 18 Graphics
- UN Environment Programme | May 2016 | Why do we need to change our food system? | 3:46 minutes
- United States Department of Agriculture | Economic Research Service | Food Security Key Statistics and Graphics
- The Guardian | November 2019 | The food deserts of Memphis: inside America’s hunger capital | 13:11 minutes
- Vox | May 2017 | Food waste is the world’s dumbest problem | 9:22 minutes
Objective 2: Identify industrial agricultural methods, inputs and impacts.
I’ve chosen the following resources to support this objective:
- CrashCourse | January 2012 | The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1 | 11:10 minutes
- MSU Center for Regional Food Systems | September 2016 | Who Controls What We Eat: A Conversation with Philip Howard | 22:55 minutes
- Yale360 | Fred Pearce | February 2018 | Can the World Find Solutions to the Nitrogen Pollution Crisis?
- NPR | June 2011 | How Industrial Agriculture ‘Destroyed’ The Tasty Tomato | 37:19 minutes
Objective 3: Examine the impacts of global meat production and consumption trends.
I’ve chosen the following resources to support this objective:
- United States Department of Agriculture | Economic Research Service | Statistics & Information
- National Geographic | Carnivore’s Dilemma
- BBC Earth Lab | August 2017 | What’s Your Food Footprint? | 8:47 minutes
- Kurzgesagt – In A Nutshell | September 2018 | Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing In The World | 8:48 minutes
- NOAA Fisheries | Aquaculture
- USOceanGov | December 2019 | The Future of Ocean Farming: Innovations in Aquaculture | 4:06 minutes
Objective 4: Explore sustainable agricultural practices to meet society’s future needs.
I’ve chosen the following resources to support this objective:
- Feeding 9 Billion | National Geographic
- Yale360 | Dan Saladino | March 2022 | Edible Extinction: Why We Need to Revive Global Food Diversity
- Can we create the “perfect” farm? | Brent Loken | Ted-Ed | 7:09 minutes
- Happen Films | December 2019 | Legendary Australian Permaculture Garden Tour | 11:25 minutes
- Carbon Brief | Ayesha Tandon | June 2022 | Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study suggests
- City of Columbus | Columbus Public Health | Local Food Action Plan