Case Study: Farming in the UK
Subjects / Geography / Farming
The United Kingdom has a long and proud history of farming, and agriculture has helped make the UK successful and powerful. Although the UK now imports a large majority of its fruit, vegetables and cereals, farming is still an important industry within the British Isles. This case study will look at the types of British farming, their locations and the problems, solutions and methods associated with each type. We will also examine the future of British farming to give you a well-balanced case study.
| Author: | Jennifer Pendlebury | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Stuart Blackburn | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-345-6 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-845-1 |
Chapters
- Background
- Pastoral Farming in the UK
- Arable Farming in the UK
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Arable farming in East Anglia
- arable farming in England
- dairying in North Yorkshire
- dairying in the UK
- Distribution and explanation of UK arable farming
- Distribution and explanation of UK dairy farming
- Distribution and explanation of UK hill sheep farming
- Distribution and explanation of UK marketing gardening
- Distribution and explanation of UK mixed farming
- East Anglia (wheat)
- Example from UK to illustrate diversification
- Example from UK to illustrate hedgerow removal
- Example from UK to illustrate milk quotas
- Example from UK to illustrate set aside
- farming systems should be chosen with one from the UK
- hill sheep farming in North Wales
- Hill sheep farming in the Lake District
- hill sheep farming in Wales
- the environmental impact of high input farming: attempts to reduce these impacts
- the environmental impact of high input farming: chemical inputs
- the environmental impact of high input farming: destruction of habitats
- the influence of climate
- the influence of landform
- the influence of other factors: CAP subsidies
- the influence of other factors: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies
- the influence of other factors: competition in the global market leading to diversification of the rural economy
- the influence of other factors: government policy
- the influence of other factors: government policy and competition in the global market
- the influence of other factors: the demands of the market on farming, with reference to the demands of supermarket chains and food processing firms
- the influence of physical factors: climate (including the processes leading to the formation of relief rainfall and the pattern of its distribution in the Lake District
- the influence of physical factors: landforms
- the influence of physical factors: soil
- the influence of soil
- the influence of the EU on UK farming e.g. arable in England
- the influence of the EU on UK farming e.g. hill sheep farming in Wales
- Vine House Farm, Lincs
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