Resource Reliance

Question 1

Locational information for Tanzania

Answer 1

East African country bordering the Indian Ocean
Life expectancy: 61years
Population: 51million
98/109 on Global Food security index

Question 2

Evaluate Canada Wheat Project

Answer 2

Not Successful
- Canada provided $95million of aid, Hanang District, 1968-1993
- It provided 60% of all Tanzania’s Wheat
- Only 121 Tanzanians were taught how to produce wheat, and they had to pay the $95million back
- Yield was mostly low and would have been cheaper to import wheat

Question 3

Evaluate Goat Aid

Answer 3

Successful on small scale
- Between 1999-2006 launched by the UK-based charity Farm Africa in the Babati District
- Total profit of farmers in the Goat Aid program was $1.5million more than those not in Goat Aid Program
- Toggenburg goats produce up to 3L of milk per day, cost $400 each
- They had to pay back the $200,000 which was invested

Question 4

Evaluate SAGCOT

Answer 4

Successful
- Southern African Growth Corridor of Tanzania started in 2010
- Some farms produced 8x the rice due to better connections due to implemented roads (7300 rice growers in 11 villages)
- One success is the Kilombero Plantation which is a commercial farm which invested millions (of the $70mill) into tractors, irrigation, a rice mill and storage which allowed them to double rice yield
- A lot of the money produced was given back to the TNC’s with some farms giving back as much as 60% of their profit

Question 5

Food Security in the UK National

Answer 5

• Calorie intake has decreased by 20% since 1980’s
• UK exported $18.9billion of food and drink in 2013 and imported $40.2billion
• 23 countries are involved in supplying the UK with its food
• A reduction in sugar due to additional tax on sugar and raised awareness
• 9/109 on food security index

Question 6

Food Security in the UK Local

Answer 6

Food Banks
- 1million people are dependant on over 400food banks in the UK
Urban Gardens
- Incredible Edible Scheme in Yorkshire plants crops on roundabouts and road verges
Allotments
- Over 300,000 Allotments in the UK at the moment

Question 7

Elan Valley locational

Answer 7

Source is Elan Valley, Upland Wales, 100km west of Birmingham, end is Birmingham, supplies birmingham with 160million litres a year

Question 8

P+N of Elan Valley

Answer 8

• Over 3000 acres were flooded which destroyed 5000oak and birch trees and drowned Dung Beetle Species (D)
• 5 water turbines now produce clean hydroelectric power (A)
• Offer leisure activities such as fishing and mountain biking (A)

Question 9

Elan Valley Sustainable?

Answer 9

Yes
Built on the idea of gravity
Can be replenished due to relief rainfall

Question 10

Three Gorges Dam Locational

Answer 10

Biggest concrete structure on the planet
Took 40,000 workers 17years to build
In China

Question 11

P+N Three Gorges Dam

Answer 11

• 32 turbines which produce electricity for 60million Chinese
• 178km of river banks are at risk of collapse due to erosion
• Chinese River Dolphin almost extinct and Chinese Sturgeon is endangered

Question 12

Fish + Farm

Answer 12

• Herbicides + pesticides lead to 300acres contaminated in the Uk a year
• Soil erosion due to wind exposure predicted to cost £1.2billion a year
• 40% of fish are by ‘by-catch’
• 70% of world fish stocks are reduced due to overfishing