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“Second Helpings”
Alan Parkinson
Geographical Association
John McLaverty
Oxfam GB
Why not turn your classroom into a restaurant ?
- Menu Amuse Bouche: Geographies of Food
Starter: Example activity from CPD Unit
Main Course: Oxfam update
Dessert: Some teaching ideas / group work
Cheese-board: Feedback
Liquers and coffees: Hungry for more ?
Food in the Media
Removed for copyright reasons
Image of BBC
Panorama
Future of Food
Jimmy’s Global Harvest
Jamie Oliver Rotherham / USA
Plenty of media resources
Vocational...
http://www.whyfarmingmatters.co.uk/
Last year....
http://www.slideshare.net/GeoBlogs/
food-security-workshop
Online CPD on the GA website
Two choices
TDA Funded
TLA Funded
Food Security
Geographies of Food
Teacher Learning Academy
Level 1
Level 2
Write up the process of working
through the units online, and using
with students, and also discussion
with colleagues...
Check if your school has enrolled
Geographies of Food
Eating is an everyday act which connects individuals with
agricultural workers, commercial concerns, multinationals,
weather patterns, financial markets, transport networks and
world trade. It also reflects local cultural geography and
changing social trends. Food insecurity threatens these
connections, regardless of geographical location.
As an aspect of “living geography”, geographies of food
production and consumption allow for enquiries which
explore the connections between young people and the
wider world, and exemplify the concept of
“interdependence”. There are also links with the growing
trend for “convenience” influencing our actions, and the
importance of decisions made by consumers.
7 TDA funded units now complete
Starter
Activities from CPD
Unit
Main Course
John McLaverty
New on the Menu!
Fair Miles: Recharting the Food
Miles Map
John McLaverty
Oxfam Youth & Schools Campaigner: London & SE
IMAGE from: www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/fair-food-miles.html
Image by Alan Parkinson
Locally sourced
seasonal food =
good?
‘Food Miles’ or
‘Fair Miles’?
Kenyan beans =
bad ?
What’s controversial
about food?
Controversial issues
• Deal with questions of value or belief –
sustainability, livelihoods, economic justice,
ecological space
• Have a political, social, economic and personal
impact – on the lives of others, on ourselves,
equitable, inequitable, global interconnectedness
• Arouse strong feelings – food security
• Encourage political and personal actions
Adapted from Oxfam ‘Teaching Controversial Issues’ 2006 p2
What’s controversial
about food?
John Berger writer, artist, political progressive,
has written that – in these days – ‘it is space
rather than time that hides consequences
from us’. In other words, how difficult it is in
our daily lives to remember the wider
relations through which the green beans
arrive on our plate
Doreen Massey – GA Conference 2002
An exciting place to be – for
learners and educators
• Food isn’t a subject to be ‘covered’, it’s
a process of change.
• The teacher doesn’t know the ‘answer’
• Learning leads to real action, and
real action leads to learning
see ‘Climate Change – the Educational Implications’
Tide Global Learning 2009
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/world_food_crisis/?284
Smallholder?
IMAGE CREDIT
Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam
Farm Labourer?
Net buyer of
food?
Net seller of
food?
Subsistence?
Market?
Fair Miles – p. 17
IMAGE from: www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/fair-food-miles.html
Lifecycle Analysis
English greenhouse ?
Image: Alan Parkinson
Shipped from Spain?
Room to move: Ecological
Space and African Farming
Kenya – 0.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year
UK – 10.6 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year
IMAGE from: www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/fair-food-miles.html
The Environmental Impact of
Meat Production
Image: Alan Parkinson
School Action – The Vegetarian
Lunch
What are the learning opportunities?
Image: John McLaverty / Oxfam GB
On the menu soon –
Land Grabs
How food and water are driving a 21st
century African land grab
Rich countries faced by a global food shortage now
farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee
supplies for their citizens
The Observer – Sunday 7 March
Resources
Oxfam Education - www.oxfam.org.uk/education
Fair Miles: Recharting the Food Miles Map (IIED/Oxfam–2009)
www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/fair-food-miles.html
The Global Food Crisis: Teaching & Learning Resource
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/world_food_crisis/?284
‘How food and water are driving a 21st century African land grab’ (Observer – 7 March
2010)
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/food-water-africa-land-grab
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab blog - farmlandgrab.org/
[email protected]
0207 802 9981
Dessert
Global tastes changing...
Not just in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/xl
WRAP – http://www.wrap.org.uk
Image: WRAP.ORG.UK
Feedback
Sticky notes on paper plates...
Coming later this month to
“GEOGRAPHY” journal...
Image created using http://wordle.net
Acknowledgements
Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield - for asking me to write
food article
Ben Major for his work on putting the units on the GA website
GA & other colleagues for their feedback on earlier version of resources
Zynga for Farmville graphic
http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com
All images by Alan Parkinson except for:
Peas macro by Flickr user zaser
Some images from
Slide 2: Christoph Niemann
Slides 10-11: NFU
Slides 6/7/37: BBC iPlayer and related news agencies
Wordle produced using http://wordle.net (CC licensed)
World Food Programme Ad produced by World Food Programme and
sourced from http://osocio.org
Slides 22-35 by John McLaverty, Oxfam GB
Slide 38 from Donate-a-meal.com
Some slides missing from this version....
http://livinggeography.blogspot.com