TAGBILARAN CITY COLLEGE

College of Business and Industry

Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Jeany Lee Cabahug

Course Code GE 3 Instructor Mary Rose E. Balili
Anna Merzalyn J. Danie, LPT
jlcabahug.tcc@gmail.com
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LEARNING MODULE

Learning Module 10: Towards a Sustainable World

Duration of Delivery: November 14-18, 2022
Due Date of Deliverables: November 18, 2022

Learning Module 10:

Towards a Sustainable World

Intended Learning Outcomes:

 Differentiate stability from sustainability.

 Define global food security; and
 Critique existing models of global food security.
 Sustainable Development

 Sustainable Development

- The ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
the future generations to meet their own needs (Chambers and Conway, 1992).
 Stability
- It is the ability of the system to keep it in the given parameters. It is used to
attract attention to a balance between today's needs and needs of future
generations, including their need for safe and healthy environment.
 Inertia - the ability of a system to resist being disturbed or altered.
 Constancy - the ability of a system to maintain a certain size or state.
 Resilience - the ability of a system to recover after disturbance.

 Sustainability
The ability to maintain at a certain rate or level. Sustainability is often thought
of as a long-term goal. The ideals and principles behind it lay on broad concepts such as
intergenerational equity, gender equity, social tolerance, poverty alleviation,
environmental preservation and restoration, natural resource conservation, and building
just and peaceful societies.

Models of Global Sustainable Development

-The pursuit of sustainable development requires (Brundtland & Khalid, 1987):

• A political system that secures effective citizen participation in decision making.

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• an economic system that is able to generate surpluses and technical knowledge on a self-reliant and
2 sustained basis.

•a social system that provides for solutions for the tensions arising from disharmonius development.
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•a technological system that can search continuously for new solutions.

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•an international system that can search continuosly for new solutions.
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• an administrative system that is flexible and has the capacity for self correction.
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 Sustainable Development Goals

1. End Poverty in all its form everywhere.

2. End Hunger and achieve food security.
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well- being
for all at all ages.
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education.
5. Achieved gender equality.
6. Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy.
7. Reduced inequality within and among
countries.
8. Ensure sustainable consumption and
production patterns.
9. Take urgent action to combat to climate change and its impacts.
10. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystem.

Global Food Security

- “it is when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to
sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and health life.” (World Food Summit, 1996)

Considerations to attain Food Security

1. Availability
2. Access
3. Utilization
4. Stability

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Factors Influencing Global Food Security

1. Rising food prices and poverty.

2. World population growth.
3. Rising incomes and growing per capita food consumption.
4. Rising cost of fuel and agricultural inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.
5. Stagnating or decreasing agricultural yield growth rates in developing countries in the
context of poor or dropping levels of public investment in agricultural infrastructure
and research and development.

Challenges of Food Security

CLIMATE DISASTER RISK

CHANGE

GLOBAL FOOD
SECURITY

DEMOGRAPHIC
URBAN GROWTH
CHANGE

References:
 Albrow, Martin and Elizabeth King (eds) Globalization Knowledge and Society.
London, Sage, 1992.
 Ariola, Mariano M. The Contemporary World: Unlimited Books Library Services &
Publishing Inc., 2018

-End of Module 10-

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 TAGBILARAN CITY COLLEGE
College of Business and Industry
Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Name: Section:

Date: Score: /10

Quiz 1

Identification. Identify what is being asked.(10pts.)

____________1. It is the ability of a system to maintain a certain size/ state.

____________2. It is a system's ability to avoid being disrupted or changed.
____________3. It is the ability of a system to recover after disturbance.
____________4. It is a long-term shift in temperature in a place.
____________5. It is the quality of being able to be used or obtained.
____________6. It is an activity to allow practical and efficient use of something
____________7. It refers to the conditions under which all people at all times have
physical and economic access to healthy, adequate and nutritious
food.
____________8. It is the capacity to sustain itself at a certain rate or degree.
____________9. It is the capacity to meet the needs of the present without undermining
the potential of future generations to meet their own needs.
____________10. It is the ability of the system to keep it in the given parameters.

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 TAGBILARAN CITY COLLEGE
College of Business and Industry
Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Name: Section:

Date: Score: /15

Conceptual Activity 1

Instruction. Answer the following questions. Do not copy from the modules and the internet.
(You answer should be limited to 5-8 sentences.)- 15 points.

1. Differentiate stability from sustainability.

2. In your own understanding, what is global food security?

3. Critique the existing models of global food security.

Please be guided by the criteria:

Excellent Average Below Average Achieved

( 5 points) (3 points) (1 points) Points

CONTENT The student clearly The student The student does

explains, expresses explains, not adequately
his or her ideas. expresses his or address the topic.
her ideas.
UNDERSTANDING The student reflects Work shows his Output shows no
on the topic in a or her ideas and ideas and
meaningful and insights. insights.
sincere manner.
FOCUS Sharp, distinct Apparent point Minimal evidence
controlling point made about a of a topic
made about a single single topic with
topic with evident sufficient
awareness of task awareness of
task.
Total points

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