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Metacognitive Reading Report # 1: General Instructions

The document is a reading report summarizing key insights from learning about the importance of biodiversity for food security. The report identifies several concepts the trainee found difficult to understand, such as "biodiverse multi-functional landscapes." It also outlines new understandings gained, including that biodiversity loss can result from agricultural expansion due to population growth, and that women often play an important role in household food security. The trainee realized biodiversity is important for human health beyond just food and that the ability to purchase food is a key factor in attaining food security. The report concludes with questions on approaches to increasing agricultural resilience to climate change and whether biodiversity loss can be fully recovered from.

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Metacognitive Reading Report # 1: General Instructions

The document is a reading report summarizing key insights from learning about the importance of biodiversity for food security. The report identifies several concepts the trainee found difficult to understand, such as "biodiverse multi-functional landscapes." It also outlines new understandings gained, including that biodiversity loss can result from agricultural expansion due to population growth, and that women often play an important role in household food security. The trainee realized biodiversity is important for human health beyond just food and that the ability to purchase food is a key factor in attaining food security. The report concludes with questions on approaches to increasing agricultural resilience to climate change and whether biodiversity loss can be fully recovered from.

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Metacognitive Reading Report # 1

Trainee: Ronquillo, Mon Carlo L. Date: 10/13/18


Science, Technology and Society

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
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Food security: Why is biodiversity important?


Topic/Lesson

1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)


i. The concept of ‘biodiverse multi-functional landscapes.’
ii. The different approaches mentioned but not specified, such as ‘agro-ecological,’ ‘sustainable
agriculture,’ and ‘conservation agriculture.’

2. Insights (What new insights or learnings did you gain in discussion/ activity?)

i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought


The only reason for loss of biodiversity is urbanization or the transformation of different
lands to subdivision.

However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize


Loss of biodiversity could be a result of expansion of agricultural land too. The continuous
increase of the world population and the goal for everyone’s food security is one of the roots
of biodiversity loss. It is the biodiversity that suffer, or in other words, the one that we ‘trade
off' to attain food security.

ii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought


That men are much more of a contributor in food security than women.

However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize


That statistical data proves otherwise. However, we tend to continue with the norm that it is
men who can do more compared to women, when it comes to ensuring food security.
According to the article, women are pertained to as the ‘guardians of household food
security’ – for when they have access to land, they usually use it for production of food.

iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought


Biodiversity is helpful only in food consumption of humans.

However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize


That biodiversity is an important aspect of the planet and are much needed for the survival of
human beings not only for food consumption but also for primary health care. It is stated in
the article that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80% of the population in
many developing countries rely on biodiversity for primary health care.

iv. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought


Access to food does not just end by being able to grow and collect food.

However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize


The importance of one’s ability to purchase food is a big factor to attain food security. One
example given in the article is the situation of India, which is considered ‘self-sufficient’ in
agriculture, but many in their population experiences food insecurity due to poverty.
Meanwhile, Singapore and Hongkong have no agricultural base but their population is
considered food secure because they have the ability to purchase.

3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas you want more
explanations about?
i. I want to know more about the different approaches with regards to increasing the
resilience of agriculture to climate change.
ii. Is our chance of saving the biodiversity big enough for us to completely recover from its
loss?

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