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Geography / Year 9 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 1: Biomes and food security
Curriculum content descriptions
Challenges to food production, including land and water degradation, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world (ACHGK063)
Elaborations
- exploring environmental challenges to food production from land degradation (soil erosion, salinity, desertification), industrial pollution, water scarcity and climate change
- identifying the impacts on food production from competing land uses (for example, sacred sites, urban and industrial uses, mining, production of food crops for biofuels, production of food crops for livestock, and recreation (such as golf courses))
- evaluating whether some ways of increasing food production could threaten sustainability
- investigating the impacts of alterations of biomes on the productivity and availability of staple resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (for example, murnong or yam daisy in Victoria)
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Environmental management, Water resources, Climate change, Soil degradation, Water quality