For this activity you will be comparing and contrasting the inputs and outputs of materials and energy (energy efficiency), the system characteristics, and evaluating the relative environmental impacts for two-named food production systems( can be two different countries or cities)

Your challenge is to become intimately familiar with two contrasting food production systems.
These systems can be whatever you choose but must be “comparable”
A possible “way in” is to think of a food commodity: say cereal grains, or beef and research to find two very different ways of growing this commodity.

The result will be a presentation that contains your research which can be a slideshow with images and your narration.

Research must focus on (for each system):

•  System components: Inputs, Outputs of materials and energy; System Characteristics (include a systems diagram)
•  Environmental impacts
•  Socio-cultural significance

• The systems selected should be both terrestrial. In addition, the inputs and outputs of the two systems should differ qualitatively and quantitatively (not all systems will be different in all aspects).

• The pair of examples could be:
•  North American cereal farming and subsistence farming in some parts of South East Asia
•  Intensive beef production in the developed world and the Maasai tribal use of livestock,
•  Commercial salmon farming in Norway/Scotland and rice fish farming in Thailand.
• Other local or global examples are equally valid.

• Factors to be considered should include:

•  inputs—for example, fertilizers (artificial and natural), irrigation water, pesticides, fossil fuels, food distribution, human labor, seed, breeding stock
•  system characteristics—for example, selective breeding, genetically engineered organisms, monoculture versus polyculture, sustainability
•  socio cultural—for example, for the Maasai, cattle equals wealth and quantity is more important than quality
•  environmental impact—for example, pollution, habitat loss, reduction in biodiversity, soil erosion
•  Outputs—for example, food quality and quantity, pollutants, soil erosion.

Food Production System One Name: Ex. (UK Beef Production)	Food Production System Two – Name: Ex. (Nigeria Fulani Cattle herdsmen)
Inputs	Inputs
Outputs	Outputs
System Characteristics	System Characteristics
Relative Environmental Impact	Relative Environmental Impact
Socio-cultural significance	Socio-cultural significance

IMPORTANT IT NEEDS TO BE A POWERPOINT