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Design and technologies / Year 9 and 10 / Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions
Investigate and make judgments on the ethical and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre (ACTDEK044)
Elaborations
- examining emerging production technologies and methods in terms of productivity, profitability and sustainability, for example vertical farming, recirculation technologies in aquaculture
- investigating how digital technologies could be used to enhance food production systems, for example global positioning system (GPS) for managing animals, crop sensors or automated animal feeding or milking
- comparing the environmental impacts of intensive and extensive production systems and their contribution to food and fibre production
- investigating the interdependence of plants and animals in food and fibre production
- examining the marketing chain of a range of agricultural products and outlining the effect of product processing and advertising on demand and price
- taking account of animal welfare considerations in food and fibre production enterprises
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Ethics, Environmental sustainability, Farming systems, Human settlements, Food miles, Fibres (Materials)