Year 9 HASS
Food Production
Threats to Food Production
BUSHFIRES
Bayley, B. (2020). How Australia’s bushfires will affect what you eat. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2020/02/28/how-australias-bushfires-will-affect-what-you-eat
Gillies, C. (2020). Australia livestock hit hard by bushfire. https://www.world-grain.com/articles/13127-australia-livestock-hit-hard-by-bushfire
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Council. (2015). Feeding a hungry nation: climate change, food and farming in Australia. https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/foodsecurityreport2015/
Carey, R., Sheridan, J., & Larsen, K. (2015). Climate change hits our food supply, city foodbowls could come to the rescue. https://theconversation.com/when-climate-change-hits-our-food-supply-city-foodbowls-could-come-to-the-rescue-51406
Global Food Security. (2017). The challenge. https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/challenge/
Kilvert, N. (2019, August 8). IPCC climate change report calls for urgent overhaul of food production, land management. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-08/ipcc-report-climate-change-land-use/11391180
LAND DEGRADATION
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. (2020). Dryland salinity in Western Australia. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/soil-salinity/dryland-salinity-western-australia-0
El-Zein, A. (2018). On dangerous ground: land degradation is turning soils into deserts. https://theconversation.com/on-dangerous-ground-land-degradation-is-turning-soils-into-deserts-94100
Mochan, K., & Gubana, B. (2018, June 2).Salinity crisis destroying Australia’s farmland, but farmers hope to stop it. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-06-02/salinity-crisis-for-australias-farmland-but-farmers-fight-back/9826834
Solutions for Sustainable Food Production
DEMAND
Orszulok, A. (2012). Can organic food production feed Australiua’s growing population? https://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/ask-us/can-organic-food-feed-australia-and-possibly-the-world/
Ritchie, E., & Munn, A. (2016). Eat locals: swapping sheep and cows for kangaroos and camels could help our environment. https://theconversation.com/eat-locals-swapping-sheep-and-cows-for-kangaroos-and-camels-could-help-our-environment-57349
LAND DEGRADATION
Agriculture Victoria. (2009). Saltbush for saline land. http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/farm-management/soil-and-water/salinity/saltbush-for-saline-land
Daniel, A., & Lovett, T. (2019). How regenerative agroforestry could solve the climate crisis. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/what-is-agroforestry-climate-change/
Specific Industries
References
Fruit and vegetables [Image]. (n.d.). https://www.beefcentral.com/news/cattle-leaders-move-to-avert-biosecurity-funding-crisis/
Last updated 19 March 2020



