Can we feed the growing population?

Our agricultural system is made up of interconnected resources. The availability of these resources affects how much food we can produce.<br><br>In this module, you will explore the resources that make up our agricultural system in order to answer the question: can we feed the growing population? Food production is faced with an ever-growing number of challenges. Growing enough food depends on the availability of resources such as arable land, sunlight, rain, and organic matter.<br><br>Throughout this activity, you will explore land uses and soil quality through graphs of land use and crop production. You will run experiments with computational models to compare the effect of different management strategies on the land. You will not be able to answer the module's framing question at the end of the module, but you will be able to describe how humans can maintain and replenish important resources to be able to produce food long into the future.&nbsp;<br><br><i>This sequence of the High-Adventure Science land module was last changed on July 13, 2017.</i>