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Where our food comes from and history of key foods from University of Illinois

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Where does our food come from? Interactive Q&A

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Where does our food come from? - Supermarket - (Science) Town view - Sustainable Living: 3M Worldlywise

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Food in your local supermarket comes from countries all over the world - many of which are thousands of miles away. The UK does not have the right climate to grow some foods (e.g. bananas, tea, coffee, mangoes) and so these need to be imported if we want to buy them.

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3M Education for Sustainable Development

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3M Education for Sustainable Development

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Wealth of interactive resources and downloadable worksheets

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Teachers - Sustainable Living: 3M Worldlywise

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The site has been designed to help stimulate and maintain pupils' interest in sustainability and in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths); to encourage more students to select STEM subjects for their qualifications - and to then pursue degrees and careers in science.

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Shows food sourced from different parts of the world

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How far your food travelled to get to you: Interactive map shows where the world's produce comes from

Nearly 70 percent of worldwide national food supplies stem from foreign origins, according to the study

Regions that are geographically isolated especially turn to foreign crops, including North America and Australia

In countries located in the primary regions of crop diversity, foreign crop use is lower, including much of Asia

With food now readily available at the press of a button, it isn't hard to forget that many of the items we enjoy today may not always have been so easy to come by.

Even now, it's likely that whatever you're eating has traveled a long way to get to your plate.

In a new study, researchers with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture mapped the origins of crops around the world, creating a series of interactive charts to show how far they've journeyed from their primary regions.

Hover over a region to see which food products are native to your home region

Nearly 70 percent of worldwide national food supplies stem from foreign origins, the researchers explain in a new paper, published to the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The interactive charts illustrate the 'primary region of diversity' of major crops around the world, meaning the region where they 'were initially domesticated and evolved over long periods of time, and where the diversity of traditional crop varieties and related wild plants is especially high.'

In both production and consumption, countries are turning to non-native crops to feed their populations.

Hovering over North America on the map, for example, will reveal that the country is originally home to blueberries, cranberries, grapes, pumpkins and gourds, raspberries, strawberries, and sunflower.

But, the country largely produces corn, cottonseed oil, beans, sweet potatoes, chillies and peppers - all native to Central America.

North America also produces foods that stem from West and Central Asia, the graphic reveals, including wheat, apples, grapes, and lettuce.

This trend is reflected all over the world.

'Countries' use of foreign crops - plants whose primary regions of diversity do not coincide at all with the same regions within which the country is located - was extensive worldwide, both in food supplies and national agricultural production,' the authors wrote.

This is especially true for regions that are geographically isolated, the researchers note, which helps to explain why North America turns so heavily to foreign crops.

Australia and New Zealand, along with the Indian Ocean Islands, the Caribbean, southern South America, southern Africa, and northern Europe share this characteristic as well.

Many of the countries that rely on an abundance of foreign crops are located in temperate climates, though there are tropical islands and continental regions that do, too, like Central Africa.

In countries located in the primary regions of diversity of major crops, however, foreign crop use is much lower, the researchers explain.

This includes Southeast Asia, the South and East Mediterranean, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and West Africa.

These regions still largely cultivate and consume traditional staples.

But, the researchers explain, the overall trend still shows an increase in foreign crops, causing countries around the world to become interconnected.

'While the persistence of traditional foods and perhaps even the traces of the original biological constraints on food plants are still visible in food supply patterns,' the authors write, 'the overriding trend is the considerable use of both native and foreign food crops, from both tropical and temperate primary regions of diversity.'

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Interactive map shows where the world's food comes from

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Nearly 70 percent of worldwide national food supplies stem from foreign origins, according to the study Regions that are geographically isolated especially turn to foreign crops, including North America and Australia In countries located in the primary regions of crop diversity, foreign crop use is lower, including much of Asia With food now readily available at the press of a button, it isn't hard to forget that many of the items we enjoy today may not always have been so easy to come by.

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Where does our food come from? video clip

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BBC Bitesize - KS2 Geography - Where does our food come from?

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Freshly harvested vegetables from a Surrey farm are taken to be sold at a farmers' market.

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Y3 cross-curricular week, linking our rain forest topic with DT food project and science Habitats

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Lots of useful spelling rules & resources

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Interactive spelling practice

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10 key spelling rules & wealth of other spelling resources

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Spelling Tip Number 9 - Knowing Spelling Rules The Top Ten Spelling Rules

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A variety of coding links from Tynker

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Hour of Code | Coding Puzzles, AI and Games | Tynker

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Learn to code by playing fun coding game, puzzles & projects like Minecraft, Hot Wheels, Monster High, and many in Hour of Code activities. Tynker makes learning to code fun!

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Volcanoes, rock cycles and other earth resouces

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Super Scientists

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Free presentations, worksheets and activities about famous scientists.

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Intermediate level
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Learn to code with Minecraft, Hot Wheels, Monster High, and many more fun, game-based Hour of Code activities. Tynker makes learning to code fun!

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Programme an interactive food pyramid for a chosen habitat

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Turn on the background scrolling to sync with tilemap scrolling

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from Maths is Fun

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Data Graphs (Bar, Line, Dot, Pie, Histogram)

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Make a Bar Graph, Line Graph, Pie Chart, Dot Plot or Histogram, then Print or Save. Enter values (and labels) separated by commas, your results…

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Code for the Empire!

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La guerre des étoiles : construire une galaxie avec du code

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Learn to program droids, and create your own Star Wars game in a galaxy far, far away.

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For all you Anna and Elsa fans.

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Swiggle - Friendly Search Engine for Kids

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Swiggle.org.uk - The KS2 Safe Search website for childrenSwiggle is a friendly search engine for kids aimed at Key Stage 2. Have fun learning to search the internet.

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Safe Search Kids | Education, Parenting, Internet Safety for All

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The Kids Search Engine enhanced by Google for safe search in schools and at home. Find resources for education, parenting, well-being and internet safety.

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A very simple game to get you started.

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Have a play first.https://www.playcodemonkey.com/challenges/0

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CodeMonkey is a fun online game that teaches you how to code. Real world programming language. Write code. Catch bananas. Save the world.

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Let's start with something simple....