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                                                         Feed the World

These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with
your research and developing questions on "We feed the World" and "Global Food Supply - Trends and Issues".

This is an integrated unit which involves Science, English and Social Studies subjects.

Subject headings, keywords
Use these words to help search our library catalogue and the internet.

Global food supply                food trends and issues               carbon footprint
food miles                            food processing                         sustainable production of animals and crops water issues                        fair trade                                    obesity epidemic                                famine                                 small and large farms                 food packaging
sustainability

Dewey Numbers The following numbers are where you will find a few of the above subject headings in our library.

333.7          333.72          333.76          333.79          333.91         338.1
362.1          363.3            363.8           388               551.1          578.4         
591.52        615.9            620.1           630               630.993       635  
660.65        904                        


On-line websites
Below are a few websites that will get you started.
http://www.who.int/research/en/ (World Health Organisation, statistics)
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33268 (news article on Global food supply)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_crisis
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering/feeding-the-world-facts-vers
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/168/environmental-issues
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=341&section=3
 

http://42explore.com/skim.htm skim and scanning tests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/techniques/scanning/index.shtml

FOODFORCE - game

Darfield High School Library Team