Biology GCSE
Vulnerability
What Vulnerability means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Vulnerability
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Reference: AQA
Being more likely to be affected severely, as in countries that depend on rain-fed agriculture or lack money to import food.
Topics that use Vulnerability
- Factors affecting food security (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Environmental change
- Food security
- Pathogen
- population growth
- Resource use
- Widespread famine
- Carbon emissions
- Changing diets
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