Øthe effects of food shortages in encouraging food aid and measures to increase outputDescribe and explain the main features of an agricultural system: inputs, processes and outputs

ØRecognise the causes and effects of food shortages and describe possible solutions to this problem

ØExplain the Farming types: commercial and subsistence; arable, pastoral and mixed; intensive and extensive

ØExplain the influence of natural and human inputs on agricultural land use (including natural inputs [relief, climate and soil] and human inputs [economic and social]). Their combined influences on the scale of production, methods of organisation and the products of agricultural systems

ØDescribe the natural problems which cause food shortages (including drought, floods, tropical storms, pests) and economic and political factors (including low capital investment, poor distribution/transport difficulties, wars)

ØThe negative effects of food shortages