Production Blog 2

The topic I have chosen to base my Web2.0 lessons around is Food Equity.The topic is a local and global issue. The need for nutritional food in under privileged countries is large and it is good for students to be aware of the issues. There are also big issues to do with food equity locally in Australia. Politics, price and obesity seem to be the main issues that affect our society.

When writing my first lesson I wanted to show students the global issues first so they start to understand how lucky we are to live in a country with adequate nutritional food. Looking globally will also show the differences of issues around food equity. One of these is the fact that in Australia we only spend around 15% of our income on food compared to around 75% of income that people in the developing world use. Another issue is that 2 billion people in the developing world are living on only 2 dollars a day. (If Australians lived on 2 dollars a day according to the above percentages we would only use 30 cents on food compared to the 1dollar and 50 cents of the income that the developing world spend on food.)

I think that this topic will engage students into the subject area and help them to realise that, though we have issues around food in Australia, we are blessed to live in such a well developed country.