Where does our food come from?

 What an interesting lesson. Did you know that 24% of our food is imported? Everything we want and need cannot be sourced in the borders of the UK. 

Global trade has increased the range of food available to us in the UK. For instance, we would not have chocolate if we did not import cocoa beans from other countries. Furthermore, some adults would not have tea, coffee or alcohol! This is where we need to import good in from other countries. We need to import goods as we do not have the physical geography (climate) to grow certain foods or the space to produce enough of it. 

Here is a picture representing how food is global for. One chocolate bar. 

The activity today allowed the children to research where certain foods are sourced. Then, they located the different countries on a world map using atlases and globes. Finally, the used the scale on the bottom of the atlas to measure their food miles.