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Identify Yuan Long ping & explain the importance of his contributions to GM food in China.

Identify Yuan Long ping & explain the importance of his contributions to GM food in China. How has the Chinese GM industry changed?. In 1974 that the first hybrid rice varieties were released in China They were invented by Yuan Long Ping “Father of Hybrid Rice”

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Identify Yuan Long ping & explain the importance of his contributions to GM food in China.

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  1. Identify Yuan Long ping & explain the importance of his contributions to GM food in China. How has the Chinese GM industry changed?

  2. In 1974 that the first hybrid rice varieties were released in China • They were invented by Yuan Long Ping • “Father of Hybrid Rice” • “The new super rice helps alleviate pressure from the surging demand, which has been driven up by China's growing population and the process of urbanization,"

  3. A recent article in the China Daily • China's rice output is No 1 in the world, accounting for 33 percent. China currently produces approximately 500 million tons of rice annually. With its population expected to grow to 1.6 billion by 2020, 630 million tons of rice will b • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/04/content_9424304.htme needed.

  4. Geographical compass • Watch the following video and come up with the five ways that Yuan Long Ping’s invention impacted China. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlYGWKH68w

  5. N = natural. How did Yuan Long Ping change natural food in China • S = Social. How did Yuan Long Ping change China socially? • E = Economic. How did Yuan Long Ping help improve China economically? • W = Who decides. How did he change the political landscape in China?

  6. Feedback

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlYGWKH68w

  8. Feedback • What was Yuan Long Ping’s contribution to China? • Use the compass and the 5 W’s

  9. Activity • Using the following articles on Genetically modified food in China create a table or spider diagram with Yuan Long Ping in the middle. • Discuss the impact of Yuan Long Ping’s hybrid rice in China on the N-S-E-W model

  10. http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/677790/Ministry-seeks-to-ease-GM-food-safety-fears.aspxhttp://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/677790/Ministry-seeks-to-ease-GM-food-safety-fears.aspx • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/04/content_9534076.htm • http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Mar/8452.htm • http://english.cast.org.cn/n1181872/n1182069/47529.html • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-08/23/content_13168000.htm • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_isa26ZXlA

  11. Is genetically modified food good? • HW • What are the pros and cons? • Research genetically modified food in China and come up with some examples. Talk about one impact on the N-S-E-W model of one of these foods.

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