Activity One - Team Effort - Spread of Agriculture

For the first exercise we are going to focus on exploring how agriculture is spread. The syllabus point asks us to specifically look at physical, economic and political factors which can influence that spread. We are all going to work on a single Google Slide to develop a guide to inform others of how agricultural innovation can be spread. While we usually say less is more on a slide this one isn't going to be used to present with. Detail is important and therefore the slides can be 'busier' than usual. Underneath the different sections are two resources that you may find useful and an example of a Slide Show from a school. The challenge is to do better than they did!

• • 1. How generally do agricultural innovations spread?

    2. Describe the model of innovation which outlines the process and who adopts the change.

    3. What can create a barrier to the spread of that innovation? Explain your answer.

    4. How do the following factors influence the spread of agricultural innovation?

       1. 1. 1. • Increasingly Commercialisation

                • Increasing Specialisation

                • Increasing Spatial Integration

                  • • Transport

                    • Supportive services

                    • Prices

                • Increasing Mechanisation

                • Increasing Purchased Inputs

                • Increase Farm Size

                • Increasing Control over the Biophysical Environment

    5. How does the spatial integration impact the social and cultural aspects of farmers' lives?

       1. 1. 1. • Increasing Commercialisation

Useful Resources

Activity Two - Create - Spread of Disease

For this exercise you are going to create a poster on how diseases are spread to help with your revision. You are only going to be able to use an A4 piece of paper to collate your notes on. This poster is for you so it can be as colourful or as dull as you wish. You can mind map, draw, bullet point, create bubbles of information - anything really as long as it works for you. We will share a variety of your posters on the department website (maybe). You will need to include the following on your poster:

• • 1. A definition of contagious and hierarchical diffusion.

    2. How diseases can spread across traditional boundaries.

    3. Why diffusion may occur more rapidly in High Income Countries.

    4. Discussion on how the environmental and social factors can help to spread diseases in Poor Income Countries.

    5. An example a directly transmitted disease e.g. leprosy or HIV/AIDS

    6. Barriers to the diffusion of disease.